Information for BIO-SRS/bionet.software.srs

USENET newsgroup name:          bionet.software.srs

Mailing list name:              BIO-SRS

E-mail postings address:	bio-srs@net.bio.net

Discussion Leaders:             Thure Etzold, EMBL Heidelberg
                                  etzold@embl-heidelberg.de
                                Reinhard Doelz, Biozentrum Basel
                                  doelz@comp.bioz.unibas.ch
Purpose: 
         Provide support and discussion for maintainers and users of 
         SRS-based software packages. This includes servers based on
         WorldWideWeb as well as local installations and the defini-
         tion of new database connections into the SRS database net-
         work via suitable tools as provided with the software.

Charter: 
         Announce, and  inform  on, new  achievements on information
         servers running the Sequence Retrieval System (SRS) engine. 
         This affects predominantly data and services in the biology
         and/or related  areas   which  can  be accessed  via  elec-
         tronic  networked   information  retrieval software (WWW or 
         specific client  software).  Announcements  from the author 
         (Thure Etzold) or other developers,  proposals  and discus-
         sions of customers, maintainers and developers with respect
         to new strategies and tools, as  well user and maintainer 
         support shall inform and invite to participate.
 
Status:  
         unmoderated, not restricted. 

Exclusion: 
         General  issues  on accompanying software problems shall be 
         placed  in  bionet.software  or  suitable software-specific 
         newsgroups  in the comp hierarchy. Established WWW, GOPHER,
         or  other services not dealing  with  the SRS or associated 
         software shall be discussed in other  newsgroups.  Specific  
         items on the non-biology related technical side of the ser-
         ver software are not intended to be discussed in length but 
         will be mentioned publically in case of need. The newsgroup  
         shall  not be used for large papers and discussions, as the 
         posting of the link to a suitable document or archive server 
         will be sufficient. 
 
FAQ: 
         Periodic (e.g., quarterly)  postings of a FAQ are intended. 

Background:
         The   Sequence  Retrieval  System (SRS) as created by Thure
         Etzold has been made available on the VMS platform initial-
         ly but is now also  running  on  many  flavours of the UNIX 
         operating  system. Its main advantage is the ability to in-
         terlink databases of extremely  heterogenous  origin.  Cur-
         rently, more than 35 databases can be browsed on seven ser-
         vers accessible via the WWW  protocol (as an entry, try the
         URL http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/srs/status.html). Besides
         local command line access, future  developments include the 
         networked environment with special  clients as well as com-
         mandline interface retrieval tools via the HASSLE system as
         created by Reinhard Doelz. 
  

Reference point server URL: 
         http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/srs/srsc