Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!sci.ccny.cuny.edu!phri!news From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: GenBank software Message-ID: <1990Aug9.135723.9753@phri.nyu.edu> Date: 9 Aug 90 13:57:23 GMT Sender: news@phri.nyu.edu (News System) Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City Lines: 46 Original-From: Dan Davison Dan Davison send this to me, and requested I forward it to this list: ---------------- > CZJ@CU.NIH.GOV (Jim Cassatt) writes: > > I would begin by reminding the community that the purpose of GenBank > > has been to collect and distribute data. The development of sofware > > was left to the community. No question. > So, I guess I have to agree that it's not really > GenBank's job to write the database parsing software Dan suggests I did not say that. I said, paraphrasing, which of the people responsible for breaking all existing sw (and there is sw that read the feature table, both commerical and pd/private) are going to *help* by doing something about the problems they've created? > So, given that, I propose that those of us who are interested (and > I'm certainly one of them) get together privately by email and work on it. > If folks from GB and/or IG want to be in on it, fine. If not, that's fine > too. We could come up with a set of routines for parsing a locus and make > them publicly available to whoever wants them on an "as is" basis. [...] Senor J. Ramon has already very kindly offered his routines; I would also like to be part of the list Roy proposed, altho anyone who knows me or has seen my code knows that I can't program myself into a paper bad, and parsing is completely beyond me (but I'm trying!). Thanks again to both Senor Ramon and Roy on this. dan -- dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to myself. ---------------- -- Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "Arcane? Did you say arcane? It wouldn't be Unix if it wasn't arcane!"