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Dear HUM-MOLGENeticist, Please find: 1) a message from the bionet concerning the growing use of the internet in biology (HUM-MOLGEN is trying to give you a good signal to noise ratio!) 2) First comment to the new HUM-MOLGEN WWW 3) Content of the HUM-MOLGEN WWW ( unfortunately without the graphics; for those who have only E-mail acces to the net) Have a nice weekend! Arthur A.B. Bergen Frank S. Zollmann (Bergen@amc.uva.nl) (Zollmann.1@osu.edu) *************************************************************************** 1994 BIOSCI/bionet usenet newsgroup statistics " total number of postings in 1994, 59,672 was up 207% over the 1993 total" "anyone who attempted to read all of the postings to BIOSCI/bionet during 1994 would have had to peruse 163 messages per day, 365 days per year" Here are the BIOSCI/bionet newsgroup usage statistics for 1994. Usage was up dramatically on virtually all newsgroups, and the total number of postings in 1994, 59,672 was up 207% over the 1993 total, 28,868. This means that anyone who attempted to read all of the postings to BIOSCI/bionet during 1994 would have had to peruse 163 messages per day, 365 days per year. When we started this system back in the mid-80's, it was possible to read everything each day in about 5 minutes; clearly it is no longer possible to monitor everything in the system. It is becoming an increasingly important objective to improve the signal-to-noise ratio on the groups as more people join the Internet. Newsgroup moderation is one means of acheiving this goal. BIONEWS/bionet.announce readership stats are posted in a separate message. Twenty three new newsgroups were created in 1994, continuing at the rate of about 2 new groups a month that we have seen for the last two to three years. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net 1994 BIOSCI/bionet Newsgroup Usage ---------------------------------- Groups are listed in descending order of the number of messages posted per day. USENET Newsgroup Name # 1994 msgs. Msgs/day '94/'93** --------------------- ------------ -------- ------- bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts 12442 34.1 2.0 bionet.general 5692 15.6 1.8 bionet.jobs 3952 10.8 2.4 bionet.software 3687 10.1 1.2 bionet.neuroscience 3334 9.1 2.4 bionet.plants 2400 6.6 1.5 bionet.molbio.proteins 2184 6.0 3.2 bionet.microbiology* 1063 5.7 N/A bionet.immunology 1929 5.3 3.1 bionet.molbio.yeast 1500 4.1 1.9 bionet.info-theory 1180 3.2 1.4 bionet.cellbiol 1107 3.0 2.3 bionet.mycology 1094 3.0 1.6 bionet.genome.arabidopsis 1037 2.8 1.2 bionet.jobs.wanted* 526 2.8 N/A bionet.women-in-bio 966 2.6 1.6 bionet.virology 939 2.6 2.9 bionet.molbio.evolution 931 2.6 1.5 bionet.announce 793 2.2 1.4 bionet.xtallography 773 2.1 1.5 bionet.users.addresses 735 2.0 1.5 bionet.software.gcg 644 1.8 1.8 bionet.agroforestry 642 1.8 3.0 bionet.biophysics* 569 1.8 N/A bionet.molbio.proteins.7tms_r* 68 1.7 N/A bionet.glycosci* 29 1.7 N/A bionet.molbio.ageing 582 1.6 2.3 bionet.drosophila 577 1.6 2.3 bionet.molbio.rapd 531 1.5 1.2 bionet.molbio.hiv 526 1.4 4.7 bionet.journals.contents 506 1.4 1.2 bionet.celegans* 225 1.3 N/A bionet.molbio.genome-program 478 1.3 2.2 bionet.parasitology* 420 1.3 N/A bionet.population-bio 452 1.2 2.4 bionet.structural-nmr* 340 1.3 N/A bionet.biology.cardiovascular* 90 1.2 N/A bionet.molbio.genbank 394 1.1 1.2 bionet.molec-model* 214 1.1 N/A bionet.software.acedb 382 1.0 1.7 bionet.biology.tropical 378 1.0 2.0 bionet.organisms.zebrafish* 162 1.0 N/A bionet.sci-resources 339 0.9 1.1 bionet.photosynthesis 318 0.9 1.1 bionet.chlamydomonas 275 0.8 1.0 bionet.biology.grasses* 179 0.8 N/A bionet.metabolic-reg 255 0.7 0.9 bionet.genome.chromosomes 251 0.7 1.2 bionet.protista* 224 0.7 N/A bionet.molbio.gene-linkage 224 0.6 1.5 bionet.emf-bio* 85 0.6 N/A bionet.prof-society.cfbs* 44 0.6 N/A bionet.cellbiol.cytonet* 148 0.5 N/A bionet.journals.note 163 0.4 0.8 bionet.molbio.embldatabank 149 0.4 1.0 bionet.molbio.molluscs* 48 0.4 N/A bionet.molbio.gdb 122 0.3 1.0 bionet.biology.n2-fixation 108 0.3 0.75 bionet.organisms.urodeles* 63 0.3 N/A bionet.software.staden* 32 0.3 N/A bionet.molbio.bio-matrix 75 0.2 1.0 bionet.biology.computational 52 0.1 0.17 bionet.prof-society.ascb* 19 0.1 N/A bionet.prof-society.faseb* 11 0.1 N/A bionet.prof-society.csm* 6 0.1 N/A bionet.prof-society.biophysics* 9 0.03 N/A * - The 23 newsgroups marked with a * were created during 1994. The messages per day statistics for these groups are derived by dividing the number of posts by the number of days that the respective group was in existence. ** The ratio of 1994 messages per day to 1993 messages per day. N/A = "not applicable" because the newsgroup was not in existence during 1993. Statistics for bionet.molbiol.genbank.updates, the newsgroup used to disseminate information on daily GenBank sequence updates, are not tabulated. ************************************************************************ 2) First comment to HUM-MOLGEN. Please see http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/Letters/ 1/2 | date: Thu, 11/May/1995 | time: 18:48:53 | host: rander-slip.caltech.edu | WWW Home Page | E-mail: rogera@atcg.com Reply to [the Author] This is a wonderful resource and well done. It is a pleasure to see such extensive and thoughtful work. We have added your site to our growing list at ATCG on the Web http://www.atcg.com/atcg/ I look forward to using your site often. With so many sites charging for services such as yours in an area where free and open communication should be foremost it is refreshing to see such an elaborate site. Thank you very much, Roger Anderson Publisher Anderson Publications ************************************************************************ 3) HUM-MOLGEN WWW Contents (http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/) HUM-MOLGEN Introduction Online Introduction into HUM-MOLGEN WWW HUM-MOLGEN News New information about our communication list and WWW Communication list General information, send mails, subscribe (free), set topics Letters to the Editor We are interested in your feedback. Please send us your critical comments, suggestions... News News in Bioscience and Medicine Read and announce interesting developments in your field, new Internet resources ... Topics Biotechnology/Molecular Biology Get information about new products, the HUM-MOLGEN Biotechnology Topic and Biotechnology Companies Register (by A. 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