Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2000-08-19 Severity: important Author is excited about getting this packaged for Debian. Homepage is http://biomail.sourceforge.net License is GPL I think this will go into contrib, since it uses PubMed's database, and it is pretty useless without access to their database. The code itself is free, and I think someone could easily modify this into doing many other similar database searches. Imagine if someone tweaked this to do searches on common web sites, so it would email you anytime the topic you desired was mentioned.
I'm still waiting in the new maintainer queue, but I'm sure I can get this uploaded via sponsorship. BioMail is a small web-based application for medical researchers, biologists, and anyone who wants to know the latest information about a disease or a biological phenomenon. It is written to automate searching for recent scientific papers in the PubMed Medline database. BioMail is free and will stay free. What does BioMail do? Periodically BioMail does a user-customized Medline search and sends all matching articles recently added to Medline to the users' e-mail address. HTML-formatted e-mails generated by BioMail can be used to view selected references in medline format (compatible with most reference manager programs). Why is BioMail helpful? If you use Medline, it may be hard to remember when you did your last search. Often you must scan titles you have already seen to be certain you didn't miss an important reference. BioMail will perform routine searches for you. This program alerts users to all new papers in their fields automatically. It also helps the user to 'refine' search patterns once and for all. There is no need to wonder: 'What was that great search pattern I used last Saturday?'. All patterns are safe in the database and can be accessed, tuned, or deleted any time. It is also useful for countries where access to the Internet is not yet widely available. If a person has a permanent e-mail address, but only sporadic www access, she/he only needs to fill out a BioMail form once and then will receive new references from Medline continually. License It is released under GNU GPL license. This means it can be freely used, distributed, modified and redistributed as a new application, or it can even be sold for money, as long as the original or modified source codes remain freely available (and a little respect to the author is shown). Requirements BioMail was written in Perl for Linux. It was also checked under San Solaris7, Irix 6.5 (on SGI), Tru64 Unix 4.OE (on Digital alpha), and should be fine for other Unix OSes. BioMail requires a standard Perl distribution and two additional Perl modules from CPAN -- LWP::Simple and Mail::Mailer. Code by Dmitry Mozzherin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
