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From:    UBCH000@EARN.FRORS31 16-MAR-1988 13:12
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INFORMATION ON B.I.S.A.N.C.E
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B.I.S.A.N.C.E. is a french project allowing access (via TRANSPAC network)
to the  nucleotide and protein sequence databases. It is located at CITI2,
a computer center which was chosen by the French Ministry of Research
as a national host in this field. The 3 on line databases (EMBL, GENBANK,
NBRF-PIR) are structurated with ACNUC, a database structure and retrieval
software, that allows sequence retrieval on a multi-criterion basis.
Moreover, due to the ACNUC structure, access to sub-sequences that code for
a specific product (protein, tRNA,..) is provided. On this basis, all
sub-sequences coding for proteins in Genbank era obtained directly in
protein code (GENPRO database).
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Access to more than 130 programs are menu driven (1 main menu and 11
secondary menus):
databases retrieval, sequence editing, shotgun method, statistical analysis,
prediction of secondary nucleic or protein secondary structures, similarities
between sequences, restriction mapping, translation, rapid search in
databases, immediat access to exact string in database sequences, phylogeny..
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Access to the Protein data bank and to a bibliographic database of more than
90000 entries (summaries of 75 journals since 1985) complete the project.
The service is operational since 1984. Actually, more than 210 academic or
industrial groups are daily working on the system, installed on the DPS8
Honeywell-Bull computer at the CITI2 center. Unfortunally, there is not yet
an EARN node on this computer.
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For more information or connection, please contact : Claude MUGNIER, CITI2,
45 rue des Saints-Peres, 75270 PARIS Cedex 06, France.
or Philippe DESSEN , Laboratoire de Biochimie, Ecole Polytechnique,
91128 PALAISEAU, France (EARN adress : UBCH000@FRORS31).
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