jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (03/22/91)
For general information, I culled this little snippet from Science this week (the 15 March issue). I have not edited it, it's reproduced without permission (but I'm sure they won't mind!): "The union of biology with computers has been sanctified with the formation of 'Biomatrix -- A Society for Biological Compu- tation and Informatics.' Based at the Santa Fe Institute in New Mexico, the society seeks the reordering of biological knowledge into more comprehensible and accessible forms by using new methods of database management, artificial intelligence, computational theory, and computer modeling. Among the chief movers behind the new society are biophysicist Robert Morowitz of George Mason University, biologist Chris Overton of Unisys Corp., and computer scientists Peter Karp of SRI International and Larry Hunter of the National Library of Medicine. Annual membership will be $25, $10 for students. Additional information can be obtained from Ginger Richardson, Santa Fe Institute, 1120 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, NM 87501." [end of article] Sounds like some people here might be interested. I have no connection with the Santa Fe Institute or any other group or organization named in this article. Heck, _I_ have no plans to join! Cheers, Josh Hayes, Miami of Ohio jahayes@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu, or jahayes@miamiu.acs.muohio.edu P.S. My editor had a bad case of the hiccups in the middle of this article, sorry if it's gotten munged....the original article was on pages 1310-1311.
kristoff@genbank.bio.net (David Kristofferson) (03/22/91)
Josh, Although the group is finally formalized, it has been in existence for quite some time: see BIO-MATRIX/bionet.molbio.bio-matrix for their BIOSCI discussion forum. Dave