dbd%benden@LANL.GOV (Dan Davison) (04/20/89)
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National Center for Biotechnology Information
Software Toolbox Forum
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This message is to announce the creation of a new mailing list devoted to
the development of Biotechnology Information Toolkit Software (BITS).
All of you have heard of this project and should have received the
first proposal from me directly. There have been a variety of responses,
mostly oral at this point. We have since evolved our ideas considerably.
I have also received a thoughtful reply from Thomas Shalom at Baylor which
will be forewarded to everyone once I know this bulletin board is working.
I will also send comments about our own evolution, a number of which are
similar to Tom's comments.
Please let me know if you got this by sending a reply to bits-request
(see below), or if you want your name taken off the list. Feel free to
pass along the address to anyone who is interested and have them send
their email address to be added.
Lots is going on here, so I will also use this to try to keep you
all posted about other things of interest at NCBI.
Steve Satterfield will be handling the bulletin board for us.
I look foreward to interesting discussion here.
Jim Ostell
ostell@bio.nlm.nih.gov
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We hope that this list can be useful for all concerned.
Steven G. Satterfield steve@bio.nlm.nih.gov
Computer Scientist
National Center for Biotechnology Information (301) 496-2475
National Library of Medicine
8600 Rockville Pike, 38A 8S806
Bethesda, MD 20894
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Dan Davison
Bio-Matrix Project Communications
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(uucp old style), dd@lanl.UUCP (new style) (*)
(*) these mail addresses will change as of 1 September 1989 to
davison@uh.edu (internet), davison@UHOU (bitnet), and the
physical mail address to Department of Biochemical and
Biophysical Sciences, University of Houston, 4800 Calhoun, Houston,
Tx 77204-5500 USA. The e-mail addresses can be used now.