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 of recent postings: -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | European Directory of DNA Laboratories (EDDNAL) 2 | The Lancet Online 3 | The Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy Data Pages 4 | Community of Science MEDLINE 5 | 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECOND MESSENGERS & PHOSPHOPROTEINS 6 | Oncology Online Medical Information Services 7 | How to announce new Internet resources, press releases etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | European Directory of DNA Laboratories (EDDNAL) | WWW: http://www.eddnal.com The European Directory of DNA Laboratories (EDDNAL) is mainly intended for clinical geneticists and molecular biologists. It provides contact names and addresses for 280 DNA laboratories and details services on 385 genetic diseases. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 | The Lancet Online | WWW: http://www.thelancet.com Offers full text summaries of selected articles from this premiere medical journal of the United Kingdom. (Registration) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 | The Duchenne/Becker muscular dystrophy Data Pages | WWW: http://ruly70.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl/~duchenne/ | E-mail: ddunnen@ruly46.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl Currently, we are in the middle of setting up an Internet site for Duchenne/Becker Muscular Dystrophy (DMD/BMD). Although the site is still under construction, we believe it already contains a considerable set of information, making it worthwhile to announce it. We hope the "Duchenne/Backer muscular dystrophy pages" will serve as an informational resource and reference point for all people involved in DMD/BMD-diagnosis. The site now displays information on: the dystrophin gene (exons, their position in the cDNA, their numbering, sizes and genomic spacing), order of markers in and around the dystrophin gene, a listing of all genomic dystrophin sequences in GenBank, Southern blotting and cDNA-hybridizations (sizes and exon content of hybridizing restriction fragments, annotated images of cDNA hybridizations), haplotyping (PCR-able CA-repeats), and a list of all known DMD/BMD (point) (including a list of polymorphisms in the dystrophin coding region and a list of primer pairs to amplify specific exons). In the near future we aim to transform the "list of DMD/BMD point mutations" into a real DMD/BMD mutation database. The value of the pages will partly lie in researchers providing data which is not (yet) published. We hope it will stimulate many researchers to comment on the data supplied, to send updates and to submit unpublished data. Many laboratories will have valuable data sets which will never make it into print, often because of limited time and/or because the sum is considered too small to justify the effort. Please, when you have information which might be interesting to other researchers and which could be linked to these page, send it to us. Depending on the interest in the site, the feed-back obtained and the opinions gathered, we plan to extend the site by adding more general information which should be understandable for interested non-scientific people. Looking forward to your reactions: Dr. Johan T. den Dunnen, (E-mail:ddunnen@ruly46.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl) Dr. Egbert Bakker, (E-mail:bakker@ruly46.MedFac.LeidenUniv.nl) MGC-Dept. Human Genetics, Leiden University, LEIDEN, the Netherlands -------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 | Community of Science MEDLINE | WWW: http://cos.gdb.org/ | E-mail: pcl@bestpl.hcf.jhu.edu Try MEDLINE searching today at http://cos.gdb.org Community of Science has developed a powerful new Web version of MEDLINE in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University. It's free of charge now during our introductory promotional period. Please make sure your director of research and development is aware of this new World Wide Web version of MEDLINE. Among key features: *Linkages from MEDLINE abstracts to biological databases *Search technology from the Human Genome Project *Download records to leading citation management software Community of Science 410-563-2378 410-563-5389 (fax) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 | 10th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SECOND MESSENGERS & PHOSPHOPROTEINS | WWW: http://bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il | E-mail: lhchalif@bioinformatics.weizmann.ac.il Jerusalem, Israel, November 8 - 13, 1998 On behalf of the Israel Biochemical and Endocrine Societies and the International Board of Conferences on Second Messengers and Phosphoproteins, you are cordially invited to participate in the 10th International Conference on Second Messengers & Phosphoproteins, November 8 - 13, 1998. -------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 | Oncology Online Medical Information Services | WWW: http://http://medserv.com/ Provides free Medline, Cancerlit, Aidline and Healthstar and daily news feeds. Full text content includes the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Cancer Investigation, and Advances in Oncology. (Physician and Ph.D. membership registration.) -------------------------------------------------------------------- 7 | 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/cgi-bin/HMB/NewsGen/vw3news?postF For other announcements please take a look at http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/hum/submit.html +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | | | HUM-MOLGEN - Internet Communication Forum in Human Genetics | | | | E-mail: HUM-MOLGEN@nic.surfnet.nl | | WWW: http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/HUM-MOLGEN/ | | | | Phone: 020-566 4598 (The Netherlands), (206) 386-2101 (USA) | | Fax: 020-691 6521 (The Netherlands), (206) 386-2555 (USA) | | | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+