Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!daemon From: KRISTOFFERSON@BIONET-20.ARPA Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: PDB on-line on BIONET: a dissenting view. Message-ID: <5841@ig.ig.com> Date: 12 Apr 88 02:49:02 GMT Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com Lines: 32 From: David Kristofferson Amos is correct in pointing out that BIONET does not have the capabilities currently to utilize the on-line data in molecular modeling software. While we do not foresee this changing in the near future, the advent of high speed network connections may eventually change this situation. This would require the end users to have direct ARPANET/NSFNET access to BIONET and also require that these networks be enhanced to provide far better performance than they currently do. I do not think that all of these conditions are going to be met in the near term. I was not aware of the DSSP databank from Chris Sander and am grateful for this information. DSSP was one of the programs that we had for on-line use with Brookhaven, the other being ANNOT from Kanehisa's IDEAS package. We have considered simply putting the output of these programs on-line instead of the raw data, but this new information provides another possible path. The PS/2 software that AMOS describes sounds very interesting. My hunch is that this will not be an inexpensive package however and may require the higher end PS/2 models, yes? Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIONET Resource Manager kristofferson@bionet-20.arpa -------