From bhardy@convex.ox.ac.uk Sun Sep 11 07:48:36 1994 Received: from oxmail.ox.ac.uk for bhardy@convex.ox.ac.uk by www.ccl.net (8.6.9/930601.1506) id HAA02539; Sun, 11 Sep 1994 07:41:55 -0400 Received: from convex.ox.ac.uk by oxmail.ox.ac.uk with SMTP (PP) id <11309-0@oxmail.ox.ac.uk>; Sun, 11 Sep 1994 12:41:47 +0100 From: Barry Hardy Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 12:41:43 +0100 Message-Id: <4581.9409111141@convex.ox.ac.uk> To: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: Glycoscience Interest Group Recruiting CCLers, I would like to see some computational chemists involved in the project announcement posted below. Get in touch if you are interested. Barry J. Hardy In many branches of science electronic newsgroups and journals, World Wide Web and gopher are increasingly-used tools. We believe that there is a potential demand for similar Internet-based resources in the 'glycosciences'. We define 'glycosciences' as embracing all disciplines of science related to carbohydrate and glycoconjugate molecules, including organic, physical, biological and theoretical approaches. As a first step in setting up a glycoscience network we consider that an electronic newsgroup, to facilitate the exchange of information, data and discussion between scientists in the glycosciences, should be created. This could be a fully-fledged BIOSCI newsgroup (accessible via USENET software or as a electronic mailing list) or as a prototype newsgroup which would be a straight electronic mailing list (with no associated USENET newsgroup) administered by BIOSCI for a trial six-month period. In order to gauge demand amongst the 'target' scientific community, we would welcome your comments. This is a prelude to any formal announcement in the BIOSCI newsgroups and any request for discussion and call for votes. Thus we invite all those who are, or are not, in favour of this idea to contact us, even though they have no other specific comments as to the form, name or purposes of the newsgroup. Those indicating interest will be kept informed as to developments such as any formal announcements through BIOSCI. In any e-mail reply, please include 'GIG' (acronym for glycoscience interest group) as the first part of any subject line in order to aid sorting. Iain B. H. Wilson Dyson Perrins Laboratory University of Oxford South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QY e-mail: iwilson@molbiol.ox.ac.uk Barry J. Hardy Computer-Aided Molecular Design Group Physical Chemistry Laboratory University of Oxford South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3QZ e-mail: bhardy@convex.ox.ac.uk