kristoff@GENBANK.BIO.NET (Dave Kristofferson) (02/26/91)
I have received the following proposal and am putting it out to a vote according to the BIOSCI guidelines. If you are in favor of creating the group described below, please send a message saying YES ON BIO-COMP to one of the following addresses, whichever is most accessible. PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE DIRECTLY!! Address Location Network ------- -------- ------- biovote@irlearn.ucd.ie Ireland EARN/BITNET biovote@uk.ac.daresbury U.K. JANET biovote@bmc.uu.se Sweden Internet biovote@genbank.bio.net U.S.A. Internet/BITNET Voting will continue through 26 April 1991 or until 40 positive responses are received. If 40 votes can not be garnered during this time period, the group will not be created. This group is proposed to be a moderated forum (i.e., postings will pass first through the moderators before going public), and we have two volunteers who will serve in this capacity, Phillip Curtiss from the University of Maryland and Matthew Witten from the University of Texas. I note that there is some overlap between this proposal and the BIO-MATRIX newsgroup, but the BIO-MATRIX group is devoted both to the affairs of that Society and to the integration of biological knowledge bases while this group seeks to address computational issues that appear to go beyond the bounds of BIO-MATRIX (although some of the proponents of the MATRIX would probably include everything in their domain 8-). Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Proposal for COMPUTATIONAL-BIOLOGY (COMP-BIO) newsgroup The group is devoted to those people interested in applications of mathematical and computational tools and techniques towards the solution of problems arising in the life sciences, medicine, allied health sciences, etc. COMP-BIO will stress the use and role of computer science (both hardware and software) in the biological sciences as well as advocate the development of mathematical and computational models for the biological sciences. Areas of discussion, not exclusive, are: -What are the leading edge problems? -What is the state of educational aspects in this area? -What is the job market in this area? -Queries for references/assistance on problems -Online discussion of topics related to the application of mathematics and computer science to biological/medical/allied health science areas. -Online review of books/articles/software/hardware related to this topic area. -Philosophical issues -Anything else. This group discourages flame wars of any kind and does encourage inter and cross disciplinary discussion of methodologies, philosophy, and techniques.