Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@NET.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.general Subject: Re: BIO-JOURNALS newsgroup Message-ID: Date: 15 Apr 89 08:55:32 GMT References: <8904111128.AA22235@net.bio.net> <352@rob.UUCP> <354@rob.UUCP> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 38 Keith, I was going to post a request for somebody to do just that as soon as the BIO-JOURNAL newsgroup was functional. We will be happy to put any such utilities into our anonymous FTP directory. In fact, both versions (Medline and EMBL) would probably be of interest to people since I know that Amos Bairoch's sequence analysis reference database is in EMBL format. I would also encourage anyone else who creates similar software to contribute it for the FTP software since I am sure that people are probably using a variety of reference database software out there. I hope that the BIO-JOURNALS bulletin board will be functional this next week. I am still waiting to hear back from some of the other BIOSCI nodes on this. In a nutshell, the references are divided into three fields in the current format. The authors are the first field and this line is preceeded by an AU identifier followed by a space, then the names. Next is the title field identified by TI then a space. Finally is the reference itself identified by an SO. Continuation lines for any field are simply indented three spaces. We don't have total conformity to this between all of our submittors yet but will make the necessary changes. For example, right now CABIOS is terminating their references with a blank line and the ASM journals are using a //. ASM is also using three spaces after the identifiers instead of one. I have had on my list of projects a note to resolve these differences and this will be done soon. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIONET Resource Manager kristoff@net.bio.net or kristofferson@bionet-20.bio.net