From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Sat Sep 2 03:48:20 2000 Return-Path: Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 110) id C22BE17B0E; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 03:48:18 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id 880F917B0D; Sat, 2 Sep 2000 03:48:17 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 2776A17AF8; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:53:55 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net From: Elisabeth.Gasteiger@isb-sib.ch (Elisabeth Gasteiger) Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: Protein Spotlight - a new periodical review from Swiss-Prot Organization: Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Message-ID: <39AFD0EE.C856376F@isb-sib.ch> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6024) id 86FE517AF4; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:53:54 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from isb-sib.ch (expasy3.isb-sib.ch [129.195.254.32]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3526E415DE for ; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 16:53:53 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from isb-sib.ch ([129.194.96.23]) by isb-sib.ch (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA21839; Fri, 1 Sep 2000 17:42:44 +0200 (MET DST) X-Reply-To: Elisabeth.Gasteiger@isb-sib.ch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.7 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en X-To: bionews@net.bio.net Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 03:48:17 +0100 (BST) Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Protein Spotlight - a new periodical review from Swiss-Prot "What do you think of 'Protein Spotlight'?", suggested Amos Bairoch. I may have looked a little blank but I could see from the expression on his face, that it was no suggestion but more a definite proposal. It was a good title. I immediately imagined a protein on stage, under heavy spotlight, peeling off its clothes to let us discover its primary structure. In fact, Brigitte Boeckmann who created the logo, thought up something quite in the same line, as you will notice. "It has to be a periodical review. Each article must center on a specific protein or group of proteins, whose sequences are in the database. The articles must be informative yet not too detailed - the detail can be found in the Swiss-Prot entries. They should be pleasant to read and illustrated. Cross-references should be made to Swiss-Prot entries and articles mentioned in the text." I left the Swiss-Prot group three years ago. I came back for Protein Spotlight! Well, after some sweat on behalf of quite a few, here is the first issue of Protein Spotlight. For the time being, it will appear on a monthly basis. However, articles following the same rules as those given above are more than welcome and our cruising speed could increase to a fortnightly issue. Articles can be submitted to the e-mail address given below. I invite you to visit the Protein Spotlight home page on the ExPASy Web server or one of its mirror sites. From there you can subscribe and receive new issues of the journal by email. They can be sent to you in HTML or PDF format. I hope you will enjoy this new service from the Swiss-Prot team. Give us your first impressions, good or bad, we would be glad to hear from you. Best regards, Vivienne Baillie Gerritsen, Science writer. SWISS-PROT group at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics http://www.expasy.ch/spotlight/ E-mail: spotlight@isb-sib.ch --- .