donn@sdchema.UUCP (Donn Seeley) (02/29/84)
For what it's worth, the UC San Diego Chemistry Dept. NIH Research Resource has been dismantled. The principal investigator decided not to reapply for an RR grant. This was against the recommendations of the staff and followed several months of continuation funding from NIH to provide time to prepare a new grant proposal. The original proposal was to put together Unix-based workstations that would provide heavy computing power and high performance graphics for reduced cost to academic biology and chemistry facilities around the country. It was intended that the workstation run all our advanced software packages for molecular modelling and refinement, 2-D gel analysis, X-ray crystallography, DNA sequence analysis and and molecular dynamics simulations. An initial survey of university labs disclosed hundreds of parties who were interested in such a workstation, and on this basis we made a proposal to NIH DRR. NIH was not satisfied with this initial proposal but they provided continuation funding so that it could be redrafted. After stalling for 6 months, our PI decided that he could get funds for his own research from other sources and avoid the hassles and responsibilities of running an RR, so he told NIH that he wasn't going to submit a revised proposal after all. The RR staff were told they could quit or work for the department directly. I am sending out this note because several people on the net expressed interest in the workstation concept and they might like to know what happened to it. Looking for work, Donn Seeley UCSD Chemistry Dept. RRCF ucbvax!sdcsvax!sdchema!donn 32 52' 30"N 117 14' 25"W (619) 452-4016 sdcsvax!sdchema!donn@noscvax