GilbertD@IUBio.Bio.Indiana.Edu (Don Gilbert) (02/08/90)
I read in a recent issue of Genomics (6:389) a program description for the _National Center for Biotechnology Information_. This center is located in Bethesda MD as part of NIH. One of the things these folks are working on is a software toolkit for molecular biology that has as goals (1) finding sequence similarities, (2) simultaneous multiple alignments, and (3) sequence motif construction and pattern matching. This center also does basic research in computational molecular biology, fosters communication about computers in molecular biology and genetics, and other useful stuff. They are supposed to have an electronic bulletin board called BITS (Biotech. Information Toolkit Software) which is available via Internet and "serves as a forum for exchange of information on software development for molecular biology applications". This sounds interesting. Has anyone here heard of this, and is it indeed available via Internet? -- Don Don Gilbert biocomputing office / archive for gilbertd@iubio.bio.indiana.edu / molecular & general biology biology dept., indiana univ., / ftp iubio.bio.indiana.edu bloomington, in 47405, usa / (129.79.1.101) user anonymous
kristoff@PRESTO.IG.COM (Dave Kristofferson) (02/08/90)
Don, You can sign on to the BITS bulletin board at the NLM by sending mail to bits-request@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov. Unfortunately I have not seen any messages posted on that group for several months. Dave Kristofferson