From dave@carbon.chem.csiro.au Wed May 26 11:16:50 1993 Message-Id: <199305260616.AA07138@shark.mel.dit.csiro.au> Date: Wed, 26 May 93 16:16:50 EST From: (Dr.) Dave Winkler Subject: Summary of MSDS responses To: chminf-l@iubvm.ucs.indiana.edu, chemistry@ccl.net Thanks to all those who responded to my query regarding Materials Safety data Sheets (MSDS) for chemicals available as databases or on line. Most people mentioned the Canadian MSDS-CCOHS (Materials Safety Data Sheets >from the Occupational Canadian Centre for Health and Safety). Many also mentioned the CD-ROMs produced by Aldrich and possibly some of the other chemical manufacturers. Databases offered by STN international (not free, you have to pay for it): RTECS (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances, 116100 records) POLLUAB (Pollution Abstracts, 180000 records, also holding aspects of toxikology and health) MSDS-CCOHS (Materials Safety Data Sheets from the Occupational Canadian Centre for Health and Safety, 76000 trade-named materials) SAFETY HEALSAFE (covering recent work relating to health, safety and industrial hygiene, ~80000 records) HSDB (Hazardous Substance Data Bank, ~4300 records) CSNB (Chemical Safety NewsBase, ~30000 records) CHEMSAFE (evaluated safety characteristics of 1500 flammable substances, 15000 datasets) Mentions was also made of the US EPA databases and that the Dow Chemical Company has a TIME system which may have this information. Material safety data sheets are available on the University of Utah gopher. Gopher atlas.chem.utah.edu. Cheers, Dave __________________________________________________________________________ Dr. David A. Winkler Voice: 61-3-542-2244 Principal Research Scientist Fax: 61-3-543-8160 CSIRO Division of Chemicals and Polymers Private Bag 10 Clayton, Australia. "Life is what happens to you while you're making other plans" From steven@cell.BIH.Harvard.Edu Wed May 26 03:30:28 1993 Date: Wed, 26 May 93 07:30:28 EDT From: steven@cell.BIH.Harvard.Edu (Steven Blechner) Message-Id: <9305261130.AA00437@cell.bih.harvard.edu> To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: phosphorylated residues... I am looking for parameters for Phosphorylated Tyrosine and Serine residues. Does anyone have experience or interest in these types ? Thank you. Steven Blechner Molecular Computing Facility Beth Israel Hospital Harvard Medical School steven@cell.bih.harvard.edu (617) 735-4826 From CLETNER@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU Sun May 26 05:16:41 1993 Date: 26 May 1993 09:16:41 -0400 (EDT) From: CLETNER@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU Subject: ARCHIE To: chemistry@ccl.net Message-Id: <01GYMJMGKDSY0011PN@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU> Hi netters, In the last week there has been mention of something called "ARCHIE". Could someone give me a quik rundown on what ARCHIE is? Thanks Chuck e-mail: cletner@desire.wright.edu From MADISON@SESMI4.LA.ASU.EDU Wed May 26 03:41:24 1993 Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 10:41:24 MST From: MADISON@SESMI4.LA.ASU.EDU (Mark S. Madison) Message-Id: <930526104124.22213a44@SESMI4.LA.ASU.EDU> Subject: re: ARCHIE To: chemistry@ccl.net >Hi netters, > In the last week there has been mention of something called >"ARCHIE". Could someone give me a quik rundown on what ARCHIE is? >Thanks Chuck >e-mail: cletner@desire.wright.edu Quoting from "The Whole Internet: User's Guide and Catalog" by Ed Krol of O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. (c) 1992. ISBN 1-56592-025-2. "...archie, a system which allows searching of indexes of what files are available on public servers on the Internet. It's the place you should start if you are searching for programs, data, or text files. Currently, it indexes about 1200 servers and 2.1 million files. You ask it either to find filenames which contain a certain search string or suggest files whose description contains a certain word. It returns the actual filenames that meet the search criteria, and the name of the servers containing those files. Once you decide which of the files most likely meets you needs, you can easily move the file to your computer with anonymous FTP." There are a number of equivalent servers. It is polite to choose the closest server. archie.rutgers.edu archie.sura.net archie.unl.edu archie.ans.net archie.mcgill.ca archie.au archie.funet.fi archie.doc.ic.ac.uk Mark Madison Department of Chemistry Arizona State University Tempe, AZ 85287-1604 From raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu Wed May 26 07:51:01 1993 From: raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu (C.S.RAMAN) Message-Id: <9305261751.AA01781@bioc01.uthscsa.edu> Subject: Re: ARCHIE To: CLETNER@DESIRE.WRIGHT.EDU Date: Wed, 26 May 1993 12:51:01 -0500 (CDT) Chuck Archie is an electronic directory service for the resources available via the internet! Since, Universities, Industries, non-profit organizations etc., are linked to the network, archie provides an electronic highway to access the materials available from various institutions. Archie maintains a current listing of the directories >from thousands of anonymous FTP sites (all over the world!). There are quite a few ARCHIE information servers in the U.S. You can either interactively access ARCHIE or obtain your own stand alone CLIENT. I would recommend that you go with the latter option, once you have figured out what ARCHIE is! To get started try the following: I am assuming that you have a connection to the network and can TELNET to the outside world! If yes then, telnet archie.unl.edu login: archie type help to get additional information on archie and how to use the server. then at the "archie>" prompt, type a keyword corresponding to the subject matter you are interested in. Once the search is completed you will see the output which reflects the different sites that carry the program and directories they are in. Then you simply FTP (file transfer protocol) to the given address and login as either "anonymous" or "ftp" and give your email address as the password. cd to the directory of choice and download the file to your machine. You can type help at any time by typing 'help'. There is also information at this site as to h ow you can get and compile your own client. NOTE: at the archie> prompt type "prog " to process your search. Archie is not the only information server! There are others like GOPHER, HYTELNET, World Wide Webb and so on... You might want to get a hold of these clients as well! Hope this helps! -raman -- C.S.Raman raman@bioc01.uthscsa.edu - Internet UNIX Programming & Administration 70412.2354@compuserve.com - CIS SPARC & SGI Systems raman@hermes.chpc.utexas.edu - CHPC Department of Biochemistry craman@launchpad.unc.edu 7703 Floyd Curl Dr. (210) 567-6623 [Tel] San Antonio, TX 78284-7760 (210) 567-6595 [Fax] ****************************************************************************** All Science is either Physics or stamp collecting -E.Rutherford ****************************************************************************** From ilya@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu Wed May 26 12:40:56 1993 From: Ilya Logunov Message-Id: <9305262241.AA07918@lisboa.ks.uiuc.edu> Date: Wed, 26 May 93 17:40:56 -0500 To: CHEMISTRY@ccl.net Subject: Computational Biology mailing list? Does anybody know about the existence of any mailing list in Computational Biology similar to this Computational Chemistry mailing list?