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National Cancer Center Research Institute has about 200 researchers. Most of them are engaged in studies of molecular biology. We established a Local Area Network System in our institute and it has been running since April 1992. This system is connected to more than 250 different instruments including 53 NEC-PCs, 122 Macintosh computers (Mac), 5 UNIX workstations. We adapted Netware 386 v3.11 on the file server which is comunicating both with PCs and Macs. The CD-server contains 14 CD-ROMs including MEDLINE and DNA databases. E-mails and NetNews service system are administered by the UNIX system which was connected to Internet on October 1992.
Generally, the researchers have used microcomputers and CD-ROMs for analysis of their research data. A few reserchers have had an opportunity to use UNIX and/or VAX systems by using modem. However the system are not useful for many beginners. So, we attempted to develop the genetic information analysis system using CD-server on the network system. We wish to establish a system running on PCs and Macs which are able to automatically take in up-to-date databases collected in UNIX through Internet.
