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From: diaz@aecom.YU.EDU (Dizzy Dan Diaz)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Re: Protein "shape" prediction
Message-ID: <1335@aecom.YU.EDU>
Date: Wed, 30-Sep-87 15:44:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: aecom.1335
Posted: Wed Sep 30 15:44:52 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 6-Oct-87 04:07:38 EDT
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Organization: Graduate School of Hard Knocks
Lines: 32
Keywords: lotsa work, little known
Summary: Successors to Maniatis, et.al.

In article <10537@beta.UUCP>, dd@beta.UUCP (Dan Davison) writes:
> 
> Try "Molecular Cloning" by Tom Maniatis et al, Cold Spring Harbor Press,
> about 1984.  There are some hysterical errors in it, but it's an excellent
> overview and in general the most commonly cited for these techniques.  
>
> Anyone else out there (Craig? Dizzy Dan? Sean?) remember the
> name of the new competitor to "Molecular cloning"?  It has come out recently
> and I've heard good things about it, but a quick scan of the latest PNAS
> does not reveal any references to it.  

A succesor to the throne of Maniatis, et.al., is long overdue.  The book
is sincerely out of date and far from complete.  It has, however,
succeeded in making molecular biology available to just about anyone
(including M.D.'s).

While at the ASBC meeting in Philly, I spoke to people from Cold Spring
Harbor Press.  A Maniatis revision is due soon.  I don't know which
new competitor Dr. Dan was referring to in his posting, but I also did
examine a molecular biology bible to be put out soon by Academic Press
as part of their paramonumental "Methods in Enzymology" series.  The
volume (# 15_?) is in press and will be available either as a hardback
or in looseleaf format.  When I pointedly asked the AP representative
whether their volume was "as good as Maniatis" she definitely replied in
the affirmative.  I have instructed to our library to pipe the volume to
me as soon as it arrives, at which time I will publish a review if
anyone is interested.

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