From owner-drosophila@net.bio.net Fri Nov 03 22:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!LGPD.UNIV-MRS.FR!jacq From: jacq@LGPD.UNIV-MRS.FR Newsgroups: bionet.drosophila Subject: A new Drosophila WWW Server Date: 4 Nov 1995 10:59:31 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 56 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: <9511041904.AA04373@lgpd.univ-mrs.fr> Reply-To: "" NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Electronic Drosophilists, We have the pleasure to announce the official release of GIFTS (Gene Interactions in the Fly Trans-world Server), a new WWW server mainly devoted to topics related to gene interactions in Drosophila. This server will progressively propose different services, databases, tools ... related to this research area and connected ones. At the moment, the GIFTS server proposes an access to the GIF_DB database (Gene Interactions in the Fly database), a new, fully annotated, fully referenced database of gene interactions involved in Drosophila pattern formation. In GIF_DB, the data (captured from the literature) are structured into an EMBL- (or SWISS_PROT-) like format, readable both by humans and computers. This database already offers hyper-links towards Flybase, EMBL and SWISS-Prot databases and more are planned in the future. Release 1.2 of the GIF database is presently accessible from this server. The GIFTS server has been created and is presently maintained by a group of people in the Laboratoire de Genetique et Physiologie du Developpement, CNRS Marseille, FRANCE, under the scientific direction of Bernard JACQ. For people having an Internet connection and a WWW browser (the majority, we hope), Our server can be reached at the following URL: http://www-biol.univ-mrs.fr/~lgpd/GIFTS_home_page.html For people who do not have access to WWW browsers, but nevertheless have an Internet connection, please drop a line to Bernard JACQ (jacq@lgpd.univ-mrs.fr). If several people are in this case, we will prepare a text-only version of the database. This new server will be funded for the next two years, but feedback from users will be essential for its maintenance and development. We therefore hope that people will find this new server an interesting place and the GIF database a useful tool for their research. Let us say that for people who are not involved in Drosophila pattern formation research (sadly, a majority of you!), the launching of a new interaction database (less annotated, but more general) is scheduled for the end of the year. Do not hesitate to react to this server (applauses, screams, suggestions, .... are welcome) ! We hope we will enjoy the GIFTS ... Server. Sincerely, Bernard JACQ, Florence HORN and Florence JANODY Laboratoire de Genetique et Physiologie du Developpement Parc scientifique de Luminy CNRS Case 907 13288 Marseille cedex 9 FRANCE Fax 33 91 82 06 82 Phone 33 91 26 90 55 .