HUM-MOLGEN archive: NEWS: in Bioscience and Medicine

************************************************************** HUM-MOLGEN News in Bioscience and Medicine ************************************************************** News in Bioscience and Medicine: <http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/NewsGen/> HUM-MOLGEN WWW: <http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/> Summary (postings by chronological order): ------------------------------------------ 1 | Human and Mouse Genetics net sources 2 | National Ataxia Foundation now ONLINE 3 | The ImMunoGeneTics database 4 | Blood Cells, Molecules, & Diseases 5 | metab-l mailing list 6 | BioWrite 7 | Platform opportunities at Nature Genetics conference 8 | Hereditary Hearing Loss Homepage 9 | Weizmann Institute of Science Bioinformatics Unit Web site 10 | How to announce new Internet resources, press releases etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | Human and Mouse Genetics net sources by Martin A. Kennedy (Cytogenetic and Molecular Oncology Unit, Christchurch School of Medicine, New Zealand) from "Internet for the Molecular Biologist" this useful, up to date resource contains information about newsgroups, mailing lists, database browsers, major sequence databases, genes, markers and disease databases, other useful databases, human and mouse genome project resources, biological reagent sources and general information sources. <http://www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~mbzsrs/HMG.HTML> <http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/documents/books/0005.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | National Ataxia Foundation now ONLINE (E-mail: naf@mr.net) The National Ataxia Foundation (NAF) was founded in 1957 in an organized effort to combat all hereditary ataxias. Hereditary ataxia is not a single disease, but a group of disorders which have in common that they cause ataxia (lack of coordination) and that they run in families. Terms used to describe the hereditary ataxias include but are not limited to: olivopontocerebellar atrophy (OPCA), spinocerebellar degeneration (SCA), Marie's ataxia, "pure" cerebellar ataxia and more. Ataxia can be either dominantly inherited as those listed above or recessively inherited like Friedreich's ataxia. NAF has three primary objectives and areas of service: Education, Service and Research. Services include patient education materials, Pen-Pal program, chapters and support groups, informational meetings and quarterly newsletter, Generations. Most single copies of publications are free as is a list of "What's Available" through NAF. Call or write for more information. National Ataxia Foundation 15500 Wayzata Blvd., # 750 Wayzata, MN 55391 Phone: (612) 473-7666 Fax: (612) 473-9289 FAX Email: naf@mr.net Home Page: http://www.ataxia.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | The ImMunoGeneTics database is an integrated specialised database containing nucleotide sequence information of genes important in the function of the immune system. It collects and annotates sequences belonging to the immunoglobulin superfamily which are involved in immune recognition, these are the B cell antigen receptor (Immunoglobulin or Ig), the T cell antigen receptor (TCR) (LIGM-database) and the class I and class II molecules of the Human Leucocyte Antigens (HLA) system (HLA-database). Release 2 (December 1995) contains 3149 fully annotated sequence entries. <http://www.ebi.ac.uk/contrib/imgt/> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | Blood Cells, Molecules, & Diseases Blood Cells Foundation, publishes articles in the broad area of hematology, including areas such as genetics, pathophysiology, immunology, clinical medicine, and morphology. This journal is the successor of Blood Cells, a journal that has been in existence for over 20 years. It is indexed in MedLine, Reference Update, Current Contents and most of the other current awareness services. Articles that are accepted for publication are distributed in final form over the internet, and are available free of charge from our web site. <http://seconde.scripps.edu/> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | metab-l mailing list a meeting-place for clinicians with care of patients with inborn errors of metabolism, for biochemists and molecular biologists (136 subscribers / Feb 2nd 1996). <http://www.franken.de/users/daneel/C.Renner/metab-l.html> Mailing list address: metab-l@rachael.franken.de Subscribe/Unsubscribe/Help: majordomo@rachael.franken.de Human list maintainer: metab-l-owner@rachael.franken.de -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | BioWrite (E-mail: biowrite@webcom.com) Kendrick & Associates, Inc. has begun offering a new technical writing service for the biotechnology, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. This service is being marketed under the service mark BioWrite. The president has a master of science degree in microbiology and years of experience both at the bench and at the word processor. We now have several consultants devoted only to this task. For more information, visit our site at: http://www.webcom.com/kendrick/biowrite.html or e-mail biowrite@webcom.com -------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | Platform opportunities at Nature Genetics conference (E-mail: k.davies@NATUREDC.COM) NATURE GENETICS is hosting its next conference in Vancouver, Canada, on April 17-19, entitled: "Genetic Susceptibility & Complex Traits". We have room for one or two late additions to the program to present "Late-breaking research". We therefore invite anyone who thinks they will have work of outstanding general interest and significance to contact the Editor of Nature Genetics in the next 6-8 weeks. One or two speakers for the conference will be selected on or about March 15. Kevin Davies Editor, Nature Genetics 545 Natl Press Bldg Washington DC 20045, USA Tel: (202) 626-2513 Fax: (202) 626-0970 Email: natgen@naturedc.com Well over 200 people have already registered for the meeting, and we hope to attract many more in the next couple of months. Full details are available from Diana Berger, Nature Publishing, 345 Park Avenue South, New York. Tel: 212 726-9280; Fax: 212 696-9006; Email: conference@natureny.com <http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/meetings/meetings/0117.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 8 | Hereditary Hearing Loss Homepage Gene localizations for non-syndromic hearing loss. * Dominant * Recessive * X-linked <http://alt-www.uia.ac.be/u/dnalab/hhh.html> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 9 | Weizmann Institute of Science Bioinformatics Unit Web site (E-mail: lhchalif@dapsas1.weizmann.ac.il) The Weizmann Institute of Science Bioinformatics Unit Web site has been reconstructed, and it now contains: * A comprehensive directory of Web sites in the areas of Molecular Biology, Biotechnology, Medicine & Pharmaceutics, General. * Human Chromosome 17 Resource Center. * Mirror sites of Molecular Biology databases. * An FTP server from which you can download numerous databases and software. * An E-Mail server to search for structural patterns in DNA and protein uncharacterized sequences. * The Weizmann Institute DNA Sequencing Service. * The Weizmann Institute Phone book and E-Mail addresses. * BigRoc, The BioInformatics and Genome Research Open Club at the Weizmann Institute of Science. * BioMOO, the biologists' virtual meeting place. <http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il/> -------------------------------------------------------------------- 10 | How to announce new Internet resources, press releases etc. You can announce (free) new Internet resources, press releases etc. at http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HMB-NewsGen/vw3news?postF For other announcements please take a look at http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/hum/submit.html **************************************************************