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From: harper@csc.fi
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Subject: Re: Biotechnology Research Faculty Database
Message-ID: <1991Apr22.131429.1@csc.fi>
Date: 22 Apr 91 13:14:29 GMT
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In article <9104201931.AA08831@genbank.bio.net>, gar@ECERSG.NCSU.EDU ("Dr. Gary Ruggles") writes:
> This information should be of interest to many people served by
> the BIO_NAUT system:
> 
> The North Carolina Biotechnology Center has undertaken a major project
> to enhance information exchange and knowledge in the biotech. community.
> They are in the process of creating a database of United States faculty
> engaged in Biotechnology-related research.   You may have seen this
> mentioned in various professional journals, or in Science magazine.
> Well, it is going very well.  The database and book will include
> detailed information on approximately 4,000 faculty members at
> hundreds of universities across the United States.  Information
> contained includes Name, address, phone, fax, # grad students,
> research description in the faculty member's own words, research
> taxonomy for convenient searching (based on a 29 category system),
> types of organisms used, types of research techniques used, etc.

    This sounds like a very useful project. I wonder if anybody
    in Europe is putting together something similar, or if some
    European database already exists?

    I would be interested to know how you have set up your database,
    is it on a mainframe or a PC, and what type of programme are you
    using to manage the data?

> The book version is being published by the Bureau of National Affairs
> in Washington DC.  The electronic database will provide separate
> fields for all of the above for convenient searching and list
> and/or report generation.  The database will be distributed by the
> North Carolina Biotechnology Center in Research Triangle Park, NC.

    Do you intend to have the data online at some anonymous ftp server?
    Or is this a commercial venture? 
                                    
   
    Best regards

    Robert Harper.