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From: SCHWARTZ@BIONET-20.BIO.NET (IRA S. SCHWARTZ)
Newsgroups: bionet.general
Subject: BIONET shutdown
Message-ID: <12509476932.24.SCHWARTZ@BIONET-20.BIO.NET>
Date: 12 Jul 89 20:49:07 GMT
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I have just completed sending a message to Jim Cassatt at NIH regarding my
dismay at the imminent loss of the resources of BIONET.  As others already
have, I urge you to make your voices heard on this matter.  Maybe we can
prevent this disaster.

Be that as it may, it is necessary to make plans for life after BIONET.
I would appreciate hearing from you as to your plans for replacing 
BIONET's services.  What are the alternatives?  Are there other outfits that
provide similar sequence analysis and searching capabilities?  What are the 
best microcomputer alternatives to BIONET's programs?

If any of you have struggled with these questions and have some ideas please
share them with the rest of us.

Ira Schwartz
Dept. of Biochem. & Mol. Biol.
New York Medical College
Valhalla, NY 10595
(914)993-4064
schwartz@bionet
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