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1990 CENSUS

Description:
1990 Census information, arranged state by state.
Commands and file names are case-sensitive; be sure
to capitalize as above. At the next asterisk, type
"ls" or "dir" (no quotation marks) to get a list of
the contents. To get the file you want, type "get
filename" (no quotation marks), where "filename" is
the name of the file. Type quit to quit. The
contents of INFO are also available for reading on
line if you telnet to info.umd.edu and follow the
directions.
Access: FTP - INFO.UMD.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: guest
Directory /info/Government/US/Census-90

Contact:

AMALGAME

Description:
Macintosh demos and XFCN PrintZ files.
Files in english and french versions
Access: FTP - AMALGAME.ME
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address

Directories /multimed_mac_demo
/multimed_mac_xfcn
Contact: [email protected]
(514) 343-6111 ext 3418 + #
Universite de Montreal

ANESTHESIOLOGY ARCHIVES

Description:
The archive site for Anesthesiology contains files
and programs of interest to anesthesiologists.
Files include the complete bibliography of the
Society for Neurosurgical Anesthesiology and
Critical Care and a neuroanesthesia manual.
Access: FTP ANES.MED.NYU.EDU,
Login: anonymous.

The name of the list is
[email protected].
You can subscribe to it by sending a message containing
the phrase 'subscribe anesthesiology' to
[email protected].
Contact: Keith J Ruskin, MD
Department of Anesthesiology
NYU Medical Center
[email protected] |
[email protected]
(212)263-5072

ARCHIVE OF BIOLOGY SOFTWARE AND DATA: INDIANA UNIVERSITY

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Description:
The main area of concentration of this archive is
molecular biology. The archive contains software
for the Macintosh, VAX- VMS, Unix, MS-DOS and other
important operating systems. It is recommended
that you transfer and read the file Archive.doc
first. This file gives considerable information
about, and instructions for using the archive.
Access: FTP FTP.BIO.INDIANA.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
For further information on this archive, email
[email protected]
Contact:

BIOCOMPUTING SURVIVAL GUIDE

Description:
Biocomputing Survival Guide is designed for the
rare user of molecular biology computer programs.
Basic operations of login procedures, file handling
and transfer, and the GCG key programs are
explained for both UNIX and VMS operating systems.
Access: URL or FTP
The Guide is available as a MS-WORD document from the
EMBnet file server, and as printed version you can most
conveniently obtain the Guide from the
"Materialausgabe" at
the Biozentrum ground floor, by sending a request to
EMBnet Switzerland, or, internationally, to Paula
Maki-Valkkila, CSC, Tietotie 6, P.O.Box 405, 02101
Espoo, Finland. The Biocomputing Survival Guide is a
DIN A 5 booklet . The Biocomputing Tutorial (the black
book) is no longer available but a new book will be
available in the bookstores early 1994 (Humana Press).

Use of GOPHER to access GCG manual GOPHER is a program
which can help to find resources accessible via
network. If you start the program, it connects to a
resource which is a central access point of EMBnet
Switzerland. The information is presented as menus, and
an item with a period (.) represents a file to be
viewed, a slash (/) is a new source of information, and
an index is symbolized with a question mark (?).

GOPHER provides you with an easy way to access the GCG
program documentation: Type the name of the program
(gopher) on the command line, and select item 5 (GCG
Software Documentation) by moving the cursor with the
arrow keys to this item. Then, hit and select
the first item by hitting again. You may
search any keyword (e.g., sequence search) after
typing it in and hitting again. You will
obtain a list of all sections in the manual which
contain the desired keyword. GOPHER will be featured in
a future release of Biocomputing NEWS. From
within the WWW program, a
href="gopher://bioftp.unibas.ch">
link to the top level of the bioftp gopher is
available.
Note that we must restrict the access to this part of
the gopher to Basel university due to copyright
reasons.
Contact:

BIOMEDICAL COMPUTER LABORATORY

Description:
The Biomedical Computer Laboratory (BCL) is
designated as a "Resource for Biomedical Computing"
by the National Institutes of Health's National
Center for Research Resources (NCRR). A
significant portion of the activities at the BCL
are supported by NCRR's Biomedical Research
Technology Program (BRTP) which promotes the
application of advances in computer science and
technology, engineering, mathematics, and the
physical sciences to research problems in biology
and medicine by supporting the development of
advanced research technologies. In addition to
supporting the development of new or improved
technologies, the BRTP resource program encourages
the use of those developments in collaborative
research with biomedical research investigators
nationally through both collaborative interactions
and service-oriented relationships.

BCL program emphasis is on quantitative imaging
including positron- emission tomography (PET) image
reconstruction utilizing estimation-maximization
(EM) methods, computational optical- sectioning
microscopy, shape modeling and segmentation,
electron- microscopic autoradiography (EMA), image
acquisition and quantitative analysis of DNA
electrophoretic gels and autoradiogram, and parallel
processing. The resource invites program participation
by research investigators with relevant scientific
interests. The participation can be either as a
research collaborator or as a user of resource
capabilities. A collaboration involves two-way
interaction of mutual benefit, whereas user service
provides a primary benefit to the user.
Investigators wishing to explore the possibility of
interactions with the resource at Washington
University should contact us by mail, telephone,
FAX, or email (preferred). Information may also be
obtained via an anonymous FTP server on the
Internet on which the Resource maintains public
information including a list of publications
available, selected publications, and software.

Access: FTP WUBCL.WUSTL.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Contact: Kenneth W. Clark
Telephone: (314) 362-2135
Coordinator of Resource Extramural Activities
FAX: (314) 362-0234 Biomedical Computer Laboratory
Email: [email protected]
Washington University School of Medicine
700 S. Euclid Avenue
St. Louis, MO 63110 USA

DATA FILES IN THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS

ADMINISTRATION

Description:
The Center for Electronic Records of the U.S.
National Archives has updated the FTP-able file
containing the Center's "Title List: A Preliminary
and Partial Listing of the Data Files in the
National Archives and Records Administration"
TITLE.LIST.DEC1793

The Title List now has 12,273, 80 character lines.
Since last updated in September, entries for the
following major series have been included: the 1980
Census of Population and Housing, STFs 1D, 3C, 3D,
and 3F (Bureau of the Census); and the [Southeast
Asia] Combat Area Casualties Current File, as of
November 1993 (Office of the Secretary of Defense).

September's update included the following major
series: the Institutional Investor Study, 1969-1971
(Securities and Exchange Commission), Bureau of
Justice Statistics data files, National Medical
Care Expenditure Surveys (Agency for Health Care
Policy Research), and the Defense Wage Fixing data
files, 1974-1991 (Office of the Secretary of
Defense).
Access: FTP FTP.CU.NIH.GOV
Login anonymous
press enter (or enter your user name
or 'guest') at password prompt.
The directory in which this information is stored is
NARA_ELECTRONIC (CD
NARA_ELECTRONIC); it contains six files.
Use the FTP GET command to retrieve copies of the
files, as in GET TITLE.LIST.DEC1793.
Contact: THEODORE J. HULL
Archives Specialist, Archival Services Branch
Center for Electronic Records, National Archives &
Records Admin.
Washington, DC 20408
(202) 501-5579; Internet: [email protected];
bitnet: tif@nihcu
Please send research mail to:
Reference Services,
Center for Electronic Records (NSXA),
The National Archives at College Park,
8601 Adelphi Road,
College Park, MD 20740-6001.
The Center's general telephone number is 301-713-6630.

FALL PREVENTION SUPPORT

Description:
Tactilitics, Inc. the makers of the RN+ OnCall Bed
Monitoring system, has established a Fall
Prevention data site on the Internet. This data
site is used to support the Fall Prevention Network
and to support RN+ OnCall users. The information
available includes research abstracts, RN+ product
announcements, and Fall Prevention Network support
services for practicing nurses and quality
assurance persons. This data site is provided as a
public service to fall prevention professionals.
Access: FTP FTP.CSN.ORG
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Contact:

GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTING OFFICE (GAO)

Description:
This site contains the Transition Reports released
by the GAO on January 8, 1993, in the Anonymous FTP
directory GAO-REPORTS at NIH (cu.nih.gov). They
are intended to give the incoming congress and
administration an overview of problems facing the
nation.

ABSTRACT.FIL is a file with abstracts for each of
the 28 reports.
A-REPORT.LST is a file with the information below.

TRANSITION REPORTS OF HEALTH RELATED ISSUES

Health Care Reform. OCG-93-8TR. December 1992. 34 pp.

(The file is CG08T93.TXT 34841 Bytes)
Health and Human Services Issues. OCG-93-20TR.
December 1992. 33 pp. (The file is CG20T93.TXT
36319 Bytes)

So that they can keep a count of report recipients,
and user reaction, please send an email message to
[email protected] and include, along with your
email address, the following information:
1) Your organization.
2) Your position/title and name (optional).
3) The title/report number of the above reports
you have retrieved electronically or ordered
by mail or phone.
4) Whether you have ever obtained a GAO report
before.
5) If you copy a report onto another bulletin
board--if so, which report and bulletin board.
6) Other GAO report subjects you would be
interested in. GAO's reports cover a broad
range of subjects such as major weapons
systems, energy, financial institutions, and
pollution control.
7) Any additional comments or suggestions.
Access: FTP CU.NIG.GOV
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Contact:

HANDICAP

Description:
This is an anonymous FTP site that contains only
disability-related files and/or programs. There
are about 40 directories with over 500
files/programs covering all types of disabilities.
The "Handicap BBS List", a list of 800 BBS's
carrying disability-related information, originates
here.
Access: FTP HANDICAP.SHEL.ISC-BR.COM
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Contact:

HL7 CODE (CPMC

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Description:
The HL7 Import/Export (hl7imex) provides a
collection of functions that can be reused in
programs to support HL7 Standard version 2.1.
Functions support building, encoding and retrieval
operation with HL7 messages.

HL7 is written in C and has implemented at Columbia
Presbyterian Medical Center (CPMC) for AIX
(RS/6000). It has also been compiled and run at
other sites (DOS, VMS, Sun OS, etc.)
Access: FTP CUCIS.CIS.COLUMBIA.EDU
cd pub/hl7/hl7imex
binary
get hl7imex.2.tar.Z or hl7imex2.zip

The file ./doc/hl7imex.doc expalains how to use the
library. There is an example in ./demo.

If you are unable to access the Internet you can obtain
a copy of the software on a DOS formatted diskette by
contacting:
Mark D. McDougall
Executive Director
Health Level Seven
900 Victors Way, Suite 122
Ann Arbor, MI 48108 USA
Phone (313) 665-0007
FAX: (313) 665-0300
Contact: Robert Sidelir [email protected]

IMMUNIZATION TRACKING

Description:
Anonymous ftp directory for immunization tracking
Access: FTP DOROTHY.CIS.UNF.EDU
pub/immunization
Contact:

IUBIO ARCHIVE FOR BIOLOGY

Description:
Molecular biology is the area of concentration, and
it is also a home for Drosophila research data. It
will include software for Macintosh, VAX-VMS, Unix,
MS-DOS and any other important computer operating
systems. Access to the archive is via anonymous
FTP programs that connect to computers on the
Internet.
Access: FTP FTP.BIO.INDIANA.EDU
Login - anonymous
Password - your email address
Contact:

LIMB - Listing of Molecular Biology databases

Description:
A collection of information about the content and
maintenance of a large number of databases of
interest to the molecular biology community.

1) metabolism - A collection of notes and datasets
relating to intermediate metabolism. Maintained by
Peter Karp, NCBI. This collection includes the
Enzyme Data Bank, maintained by Amos Bairoch,
Centre Medical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland.
2) mol-model - A central data repository where
workers in the field of macromolecular modelling
can deposit and retrieve parameter sets, potential
energy functions, and associated data relevant to
molecular modelling applications. Maintained by Jay
Ponder, Washington University, and David States,
NCBI.
Access: FTP FTP.BIO.INDIANA.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Directory /molbnio/data
File: list-of-molbio.text
Also available via email - [email protected] with a
request
Contact: Gifford Keen, Los Alamos National Laboratory.

M-Media

Description:
This archive contains a library of medical
applications created in Authorware for both the Mac
and the PC. It came online Sept. 30, 1992 and
invites public domain uploads. Several README files
provide more information.
Access: FTP M-MEDIA.MUOHIO.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: Your email address
Contact:

MAC ARCHIVES SECTION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN

Description:
Directory /mac/etc/medical
The Mac Archives at University of Michigan
collection area for medicine and the health
sciences. As of this writing, the collection is
small. The contents are gradually growing in the
AMSA public domain software library, but these
files are a few years old. They are seeking any
Macintosh programs, utilities, demonstrations, or
computer aided instruction related to the health
sciences. Anyone developing any type of Macintosh
medical software, and would like to make it
available to the rest of the world, can send it to
them.

SUBMITTING FILES TO THE MEDICAL SECTION OF THE
ARCHIVES

The best way to get files to the archive is to FTP.
Put them into the incoming directory, then email
[email protected] and let him know that the file is
there. This way he'll know there are health
science files waiting within the directory, and
also who to contact if the files don't work "as
advertised."
Access: FTP MAC.ARCHIVE.UMICH.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Contact: As of this writing the medical section of the archives
is being maintained by Eric Meininger
([email protected])
Questions, problems and comments regarding the medical
archive specifically should be sent to
[email protected].
General mac.archive questions should be sent to
[email protected]

MEDTBOOK

Description:
ASYMETRIX has set up the following directories on
their FTP site. If anyone feels that they can
allow others to SEE/USE/COMPARE what they have
done, then use the UPLOAD directory to PUT the
files. What is required is a text file description
of the book and any other claims, disclaimers that
are warrented. Perhaps a quick note to the list
stating that you have uploaded some work, OR if you
prefer a note to me and I will forward to the
medical toolbook list - in which case make the
subject line include MTBOOK LIST so that I can
filter these out from the other messages.

The subdirectory structure is as follows:
/pub/medtbook/medicine
/pub/medtbook/medicine/uploads
/pub/medtbook/medicine/anatomy
/pub/medtbook/medicine/pharmacology
/pub/medtbook/medicine/community
/pub/medtbook/medicine/biochemistry
/pub/medtbook/medicine/physiology
/pub/medtbook/medicine/medicine
/pub/medtbook/medicine/paediatrics
/pub/medtbook/medicine/pathology
/pub/medtbook/medicine/psychiatry
/pub/medtbook/medicine/reproductive
/pub/medtbook/medicine/oncology
/pub/medtbook/dentistry
/pub/medtbook/veterinary

Room for 250MEG of files is not a problem.
All uploads should be uploaded to the
/pub/medtbook/medicine/uploads directory. Include
a text file with application to aid placement in
correct subdirectory.
Access: FTP ASYMETRIX.COM
Contact: John D. Hendriks
Faculty of Medicine
[email protected]
University of Newcastle
NSW 2308 Australia

MIRROR FTP SITE FOR PUBLIC DOMAIN MEDICAL SOFTWARE

Description:
This mirror site is maintained by the University of
North Carolina. The directory structure and files
contained in Campinas are exactly duplicated. The
FTP resource for public domain medical software,
documents and conferences established by the Center
for Biomedical Informatics of the State University
of Campinas, Brazil, now has a full mirror site
which can be accessed more easily by users located
in North America and Europe.

The original anonymous-access FTP node is
CCSUN.UNICAMP.BR or 143.106.1.5 under the directory
pub/medicine. It contains the following
subdirectories:

1.) pub/medicine: Contains 50+ public domain
software for IBM-PCs 2.) pub/medicine/conferences:
Contains original announcements and programs for
medical informatics conferences for the next 3
years 3.) pub/medicine/documents: Papers, user
guides, bibliography, reports, etc. on MI
4.) pub/medicine/neuralnets: Documents and public
domain software for neural network applications in
medicine and biology
Access: FTP SUNSITE.UNC.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address

NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION

Description:
Compiled by The National Institutes of Health. The
respository's directory is a collection of
databases and software which has been deposited
with the NCBI and made available for distribution
"as is". The databases and software are not
officially supported or maintained by the NCBI and
the NCBI does not assume responsibility for the
accuracy, validity, or reliability of the
software. Each collection of software will
typically be stored in individual directories
containing README files for file descriptions and
contact names. The following is a partial list of
directories which are presently available in the
NCBI repository:

TFD - Transcription Factor Database. A relational
database of transcription factors maintained by
David Ghosh, NCBI.

NGDD - Normalized Gene Designation Database.
Normalized gene maps for E.coli, Salmonella,
Bacillus Subtilus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and
Caulobacter crescentus from Yvon Abel and Robert
Cedergen.
EPD - Eukaryotic Promoter Database. NA POL II
promoters active in higher excoriates. Maintained
by Philipp Bucher, Stanford University.
PROSITE: a dictionary of sites and patterns of
proteins. Both the Handbook and a User Manual are
available.
Access: FTP GENBANK.BIO.NET
Login: anonymous
Password: guest
Directory: pub/db/prosite
Files: prosite.txt (User Manual) prosite.doc
(Handbook)
Contact:

NIH SERVER

Description:
Several directories with files from the National
Instituties of Health.
Access: FTP FTP.CU.NIH.GOV
Password: guest or anonymous
Contact: phone 1-301-496-5525 from 9am-3pm (Eastern Time
USA) for help.

NLM PUBLICATIONS SERVER

Description:
Currently contains: NLM Current Bibliographies in
Medicine, AIDS Bibliographies, UMLS documentation,
chapters of the Online Services Reference Manual
and NLM fact sheets.
Access: FTP - LMPUBS.NLM.NIH.GOV
login: nlmpubs
Contact: Suggestions, comments, or questions may be submitted
by email to [email protected]

SCIENTIST ON NSFNET

Description:
The Scientist files are updated every two weeks.
File numbers correspond to date of publication.

Example: the-scientist-921207
is: the-scientist-92(for year) 12(for month)
07(date)
Typing get* retrieves a listing of all files in
The Scientist directory of NSFnet. TS files are
about 3000 lines long. Once they are downloaded,
it's easy to scroll to the next article by
searching for the demarcator. One can also search
for "(Page nn" or "(Page #nn"

OR

Access The Scientist\ via NNSC Info-Server, which
is an automatic program that delivers information
by electronic mail. To request The Scientist\ from
the Info-Server, send a message to :
[email protected]
No subject field is needed The text of the request
must be in a special format as follows:

REQUEST: The-Scientist
TOPIC: the-scientist-921207 (if you want the
December 7 issue) or TOPIC:the-scientist-index (if
you wish to see the list of Scientist files)
REQUEST:END

This request asks for two documents -- The
Scientist\ of December 7, 1992 and Index to The
Scientist. You can request up to 20 topics in one
request, each topic on a separate line.
The NNSC Info-Server is now configured to split
documents into a maximum size of 40,000 bytes (40K
bytes). The reason is that some important mail
gateways reject messages longer than an arbitrary
limit, and others have difficulty with long
messages from time to time. This is why a Line or
Byte Limit on the second line of your request is
needed.
Access: FTP - NNSC.NSF.NET
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
To retrieve type: get the-scientist-921207
Contact:

THE CENTER FOR BIOMEDICAL INFORMATICS OF THE STATE

UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS, BRAZIL Description:
This site's intention is to foster educational and
practical uses of computers in medicine and health
sciences by providing free access to software
resources and documentation to the international
community. It provides a public-access directory
containing files for distribution via anonymous FTP
to all Internet remote sites.

It offers medical informatics applications in ASCII
format, as well as public-domain software. Read
the README and 00-INDEX.TXT files in order to
become familiar with the norms and contents of this
directory.
Access: FTP - CCSUN.UNICAMP.BR
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Directory: /pub/medicine
Contact: Public domain contributions are gladly accepted.
Please address all requests for submissions
(uploadings) to the directory-owner below.
Renato M.E. Sabbatini, PhD
Director: Center for Biomedical Informatics
P.O. Box 6005
State University of Campinas
Campinas, SP 13081 - BRAZIL
Tel.: +55 192 39-7130 (office)
39-4168 (home)
Fax.: +55 192 39-4717 (office)
Telex: +55 19 1150
Internet: [email protected]
Bitnet: [email protected]

THE UCI MEDICAL EDUCATION SOFTWARE REPOSITORY

Description:
This is a FTP site at the University of California
for the collection of shareware public domain
software and other information relating to medical
education.

The Repository currently offers both MSDOS and
Macintosh software, and hopes to support other
operating systems (UNIX, MUMPS, AMIGA?). Uploads
are welcome. They actively solicit information and
software found useful in local medical education
whether developed by an instructor or student.

Once connected to the site via FTP, cd (change
directory) to either the med-ed/mac/incoming or the
med-ed/msdos/incoming directories. Change the mode
to binary and "send" or "put" files, depending on
the local system. Note that the files cannot be
seen with the "ls" or "dir" commands. Please
compress files as appropriate to the operating
system (ZIP for MSDOS; Compactor or something
similar for Macintosh) to save disk space.

After uploading, please send email to Steve Clancy
([email protected]) (for MSDOS) or Albert Saisho
([email protected]) (for MAC) describing the files)
the uploaded files and any other information they
might need.

Note that they can only accept software or
information that has been designated as shareware,
public-domain or that may otherwise be distributed
freely. Please do not upload commercial software!
Doing so may jeopardize the existence of this FTP
site.
Access: FTP FTP.UCI.EDU
Login: anonymous
Password: your email address
Directory /med-ed/mac/incoming
Contact: Steve Clancy, M.L.S. [email protected]
Albert Saisho, M.D. [email protected]

VOXEL-MAN 3D

Description:
Interactive atlas of skull and brain. Those who
like to have an impression of its functionality may
get interactively generated sample images via FTP.
Access: Images are available via anonymous ftp at
FOKUS.UKE.UNI-HAMBURG.DE (134.100.96.5)
in the directory
[anonymous.voxelman.images].
BINARY transfer mode! The server is a VAX/VMS
system, so some aspects are somewhat special:
- commands
common UNIX FTP server this FTP server
-------------------------------------------------
cd voxelman cd [.voxelman]
cd voxelman/images cd [.voxelman.images]
cd .. cd [-]

- file size are in "blocks" of 512 bytes.
Contact: Internet: [email protected]
Bitnet: [email protected]