Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!uunet!bionet!apple!usc!wuarchive!psuvax1!burdvax!overt@antony From: overt@antony (Christian Overton) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genome-program Subject: Re: A bulletin board for chromosome 22 Message-ID: <15517@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 7 Nov 90 15:10:00 GMT References: Sender: news@PRC.Unisys.COM Reply-To: overt@antony (Christian Overton) Organization: Unisys - Paoli Research Center Paoli, PA Lines: 39 In-reply-to: mjb1@mbcr.cam.ac.uk (Martin Bishop) In article , mjb1@mbcr (Martin Bishop) writes: >The proposal to set up a bulletin board for human chromosome 22 is interesting. >This would provide a more continuous form of interaction than the single >chromosome workshops which are being funded by various agencies. >My worry is that there are 24 human chromosomes and that we may be asked to >vote on each one separately according to whether the chromosome chairperson >is a bulletin board user or not. >Would it not be best to get a consensus from human chromosome chairs as to >having a single board for all chromosomes or 24 boards and voting >once on the lot? I am posting the following for Dr. Emanuel, Chairman for Chromosome 22: =================================================================================== A group of researchers working on chromosome 22 met last April at a Chromosome 22 workshop. It was decided by that group that some sort of newsletter would be quite useful. The biggest problem with such a newsletter was how to circulate it to interested parties, and there really was not a volunteer for that effort. An electronic bulletin board would serve that purpose and would not require that someone take the total responsibility for disseminating the information. I think that if the other single chromosome communities want to start such a bulletin board it would be reasonable. This would be a place to pass out information regarding STS development, mapping information etc. It might not be terribly useful to get all chromosomes on the same bulletin board. Also, if we wait until all of the chromosome chairs sign on, it might take too long to get it up and running. I would like to see some get started and see what kind of usage they get and how useful they are perceived as being. Beverly S. Emanuel, Chairman for Chromosome 22 =================================================================================== -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | G. Christian Overton || Telephone: (215) 648-2420 | | Center for Advanced Information Technology || Internet: overt@prc.unisys.com | | Unisys || FAX: (215) 648-2288 | Brought to you by Super Global Mega Corp .com