Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: What/who is bionet Message-ID: Date: 14 Sep 90 22:33:03 GMT References: <26EF7F5C.17114@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 34 BIONET was formerly the National Computer Resource for Molecular Biology, a timesharing service run by IntelliGenetics, Inc. for the NIH. As part of its service, BIONET ran a series of bulletin boards and gatewayed them into USENET under the bionet heirarchy. Later BIONET merged with SEQNET in the U.K. and BIOTECH at UMDC to form the international BIOSCI network which is currently a collaborative effort between GenBank at IntelliGenetics (which took over the newsgroups from BIONET after the BIONET grant ended in 1989), SERC labs in Daresbury, U.K., the Biomedical Center at the University of Uppsala, Sweden, and the University College Dublin. Even though BIOSCI is the new name of the network, for technical reasons the names of the USENET groups remained under the bionet heirarchy. There is no formal organization running BIOSCI; just a group of dedicated souls who stay in contact by electronic mail and oversee operations at the four main distribution sites. You can contact people at each site through the following addresses if you have questions about BIOSCI/bionet. Address Location Network ------- -------- ------- biosci@irlearn.ucd.ie Ireland EARN/BITNET biosci@uk.ac.daresbury U.K. JANET biosci@bmc.uu.se Sweden Internet biosci@genbank.bio.net U.S.A. Internet/BITNET The last address in the list directs mail to me. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net