Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!bionet!lhc!ncifcrf!fcs260c2!toms From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Re: Software for automated subseqence extraction Message-ID: <2144@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> Date: 3 May 91 15:40:30 GMT References: <2139@fcs280s.ncifcrf.gov> <1991May1.114219.25483@phri.nyu.edu> Sender: news@ncifcrf.gov Organization: NCI Supercomputer Facility, Frederick, MD Lines: 17 In article <1991May1.114219.25483@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes: >toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes: >> The idea is that Delila is a 'librarian' and you give 'her' instructions >> that define the fragments you want. She reaches into the library and >> pulls out -- what else? -- a book. >Her? Why is a librarian automatically assumed to be female? Because 'she' is named Delila (DEoxyribonucleic acid LIbrary LAnguage), which is similar to the famous Delilah, who cut Samson's hair. Like Delilah, Delila cuts DNA. Tom Schneider National Cancer Institute Laboratory of Mathematical Biology Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 toms@ncifcrf.gov