From POSTMASTER@com.csc.fi Wed Jul 31 10:52 EST 1991 Received: from iubio.bio.indiana.edu by cricket.bio.indiana.edu (5.64/A/UX-2.00) id AA08676; Wed, 31 Jul 91 10:52:22 EST Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1991 23:48 +1000 From: "Tony Kyne, Walter and Eliza Hall Institute" Subject: VMS Database Submission Form Program To: Rob_Harper_@com.csc.fi, Davison@uh.edu, Broe@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu, Macrides@wfeb2.bitnet Message-Id: <1993ABD980405936@wehi.edu.au> X-Vms-To: @SUBFORM.LIS X-Vms-Cc: TONY Status: R Rob Harper, Dan Davison, Bruce Roe and Foteos Macrides Well I have finally finished it. The VMS database submission form program SUBFORM, is now available. The following note describes how to get it etc. Rob and Dan - I have taken the liberty of including in the notes and docs that the package will be available at FUNET, UH Gene Server, IUBIO and EMBL - you did offer. Good Luck, Tony Kyne, tony@wehi.edu.au *************************************************************************** THE WALTER AND ELIZA HALL INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL RESEARCH POSTAL ADDRESS: POST OFFICE, ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL, VICTORIA, 3050, AUSTRALIA TELEPHONE: International 61-3-345-2555 National (03) 345 2555 TELEX: 30625 Attention ME3659 FACSIMILE: International 61-3-347-0852 National (03) 347 0852 SUBFORM A PROGRAM TO AID SUBMISSION OF SEQUENCE DATA TO INTERNATIONAL DATABASES by Marina Spaulding (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research - Melbourne Branch) and Tony Kyne (The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute for Medical Research) Correspondence: Tony Kyne, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Post Office, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, 3052 Australia e-mail: tony@wehi.edu.au SUBFORM is Copyright (1991) by Dr. Anthony P. Kyne, Computer Sciences Unit, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, PO Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, 3050, Australia. This program is made available for public use and must not be sold for profit. It can be freely distributed, as long the banner section of this document is included with any distribution. ---- End of Banner ---- The international sequence database submission form program for VMS is now available. This program uses VMS SMG screens and on screen editing facilities to assist users in preparing and mailing an entry to the various database collators. The entry produced by this program closely resembles the submission form distributed by the databases. The program was built around the form as it existed a couple of years ago. It is not, repeat not, a VMS version of AUTHORIN. The SUBFORM package now is available for ftp from the pub subdirectory at wehil.wehi.edu.au (128.250.252.13) as a compressed VMS backup saveset. European and North American users are requested to conserve the precious satellite bandwith between Australia and the US and try to use ftp or mail servers at FUNET (nic.funet.fi), UH Gene Server (gene-server@bchs.uh.edu), IUBIO (ftp.bio.indiana.edu) and EMBL (netserv@embl-heidelberg.de). Hopefully the package will be available at these sites in a day or so. The package includes the C version of Don Gilbert's (dogStar Software and Indiana University biology Department) READSEQ package for reading files in various popular sequence formats. (Please note that this SUBFORM package has been pulled from a wider sequence analysis environment at WEHI/LICR/CSIRO-BME. Hence if you decide to get into the code to modify the program, and see what appear to be odd bits of code about, it is some of the support code for local situation.) Select a home directory for the package and uncompress and unpack the backup save set. (A decompression executable is also available from wehil.wehi.edu.au and other sites if you do not have this available.) It will create a directory subform and subdirectories for sources and documentation and the READSEQ package. The top directory, subform, contains all the necessary working files. You will need to customize a number of files to get the package working. Print either the Postscript (SUBFORM.PS) or ASCII (SUBFORM.ASCII) versions of the manual for the rest of the installation process. SUBFORM has tested OK on VMS 5.2, 5.3-1 and 5.4-2. I suspect that you may have real difficulties running it on pre VMS 5.0 systems. Major enhancements occurred with Pascal about then. Send all comments, bouquets and brickbats to me(tony@wehi.edu.au). Marina is no longer with us - she has stopped working for the love of science and now earns lots of filthy money in the commercial world downtown. Good luck, Tony Kyne.