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From: toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider)
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Subject: Re: Software for automated subseqence extraction
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Date: 9 May 91 21:38:28 GMT
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In article <12911@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> jlong@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (John Long) writes:
>In article <1991May1.114219.25483@phri.nyu.edu> roy@phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) writes:
>>toms@fcs260c2.ncifcrf.gov (Tom Schneider) writes:
>>Her?  Why is a librarian automatically assumed to be female?
>With a name like 'Delila' I think it's safe to assume that he/she/ye/it is a 
>female. Maybe the creator named it after herself. Call it artistic license.
>BFD.

>Besides, doesn't it just make sense that software would be female and hardware
>be male?

I was designing a computer language with which one can extract portions
of a DNA sequence.  I needed a name, and one morning woke up and wrote down:
  DEoxyribonucleic acid
    LIbrary
      LAnguage
  DELILA
hence the name.  See 

@article{Schneider1982,
author = "T. D. Schneider
 and G. D. Stormo
 and J. S. Haemer
 and L. Gold",
title = "A design for computer nucleic-acid sequence storage, retrieval and
manipulation",
journal = "Nucl. Acids Res.",
volume = "10",
pages = "3013-3024",
year = "1982"}

"She"'s available by anonymous ftp from ncifcrf.gov in pub/delila.

>Aloha,
>-LongJohn

  Tom Schneider
  National Cancer Institute
  Laboratory of Mathematical Biology
  Frederick, Maryland  21702-1201
  toms@ncifcrf.gov