Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!uunet!ig!daemon From: BTFOLEY@UVMVM.BITNET Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: GenBank release: BioNet account Message-ID: <5286@ig.ig.com> Date: 25 Feb 88 23:51:23 GMT Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com Lines: 38 From: Brian T Foley Hi BioNet! I am a first-year graduate student at the University of Vermont. I previously worked as a sequence annotator for GenBank for three years, and I am helping to get UVM into the computer age in molecular biology. What we have so far is the U of Wisconsin Genetics Computer Group package with GenBank release 52.0 (Aug 1987), a BitNet line, and an IBM PS/2 with a modem. Nobody knows how to use this stuff. So I'm spending extra hours getting this system set up and learning how to use it. Things are not always as they seem... (especially not always as EASY as they seem). One big bug can ruin my whole day. Anyway, I'm wondering if BioNet would be a help to us yet. Nobody here is too interested in computing yet, but our department will almost double in size next year (from 7 to 12 faculty), and I would like to have good sequence analysis facilities available to the new staff who might be more interested in this. Would it be possible for me to get a class II account temporarily to get the resource on-line and try it out? I haven't been able to talk any of the current pricipal investigators here into buying an account because they are not yet using computers for much of anything yet. The one thing I feel I could contribute to the resource is to test the data submission programs to GenBank, and give feedback to my former co-workers there. I have entered a few sequences here at UVM that are submittable. I'm not the only one who reads the latest JBC or finds a sequence in a rare journal not covered by GenBank and ends up typing in and annotating a sequence that we can't wait to compare to ours. It would be nice if it was easy to pass our labor along to GenBank in an easy way. Even if GenBank had to enter the sequence once more to check our work it would save some effort. I would like to thank David Kristofferson for sending me the information on BioNet. If I can't get a class II account now, I will be sure to get somone interested in a class I account next year. Sincerely Brian T Foley BTFOLEY@UVMVM (802) 656-1116