Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ns-mx!iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!snorkelwacker! bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!funic!csc.fi!harper From: harper@csc.fi (Rob Harper (Supercomputer Centre Finland)) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: ANONYMOUS FTP FROM BITNET Message-ID: <1990Oct4.130708.1@csc.fi> Date: 4 Oct 90 13:07:08 GMT References: <9009290610.AA23614@genbank.bio.net> <1990Sep30.043924.19653@nlm.nih.gov> <1990Oct3.195352.5977@nlm.nih.gov> Sender: usenet@nic.funet.fi Organization: Finnish Academic and Research Network Project - FUNET Lines: 17 In article , kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) writes: > There is no doubt that e-mail transfer would be faster from our site > to other Internet sites rather than to, e.g., JANET, but it is also > true that sites which are not on the Internet would be completely cut > off from using an interactive, TCP/IP based system. FASTA-MAIL is > accessible to people on virtually any major network. I would suggest that people in Europe could use the similar service from EMBL. There is a very nice DCL script for VMS called FASTEMBL which can can take your sequence, convert it to UPPERCASE, modify it to STADEN format, and perpare a file to be sent to EMBL. I have tried sending the same sequence to EMBL with FASTEMBL and to GENBANK with FAMAIL... ( a similar script for Genbank) the results I can get back from EMBL within an hour... the Genbank results usually arrive the next day... I have never had to wait days for a reply. Scientists should learn to utilize the resource that is closest to home. Rob " it's not where you're from... it's where you're at... Harper