Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!bionet!kristoff From: kristoff@genbank.BIO.NET (David Kristofferson) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: GenBank software Message-ID: Date: 8 Aug 90 20:03:49 GMT References: <9008081410.AA02507@alw.nih.gov> <1990Aug8.183417.13479@phri.nyu.edu> Organization: GenBank Online Service Lines: 21 Roy, So that you can get input from the various database staff persons at LANL, EMBL, DDBJ, and IG, it might be a good idea to hold your discussions on this forum (assuming that people do become serious about really doing this and are just philosophizing). I believe that people at all of the above locations read this group, and traffic has not been so overwhelming that it would create a nuisance. In fact, this is exactly the kind of issue that this newsgroup was designed for. I would be gratified to see this kind of communication between the databanks and the user community expanded greatly. Although it may not be our mission to write the software, it would be a big mistake not to tap into the accumulated expertise available here. I hope that the staff at the other databanks concur in this opinion. -- Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson GenBank On-line Service Manager kristoff@genbank.bio.net