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From: papowell@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: What would you like to see in DNA sequencing tools
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Date: 20 Jun 88 12:53:03 GMT
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Reply-To: papowell@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu (Patrick Powell, Dept. CS. U-Minn)
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I have been looking at the problem of building a general purpose
set of tools for doing some of the computation associated with
the DNA/RNA sequencing work.   One of the problems that I have is getting
a wider perspective on the TYPES of tools that users want.

1.  User interfaces:
	Graphical?  Iconic?  Simple line oriented?  Menu driven?
2.  Database Searching:
	What level of presentation?  Single entry?  Multiple entries (these two
	are the most common)?
	Save/add the entries found to a new database (private database creation)?
3.	What types of searching do you want?
	-- This is the most interesting part.  Many of the programs that I have seen
	have been fairly special purpose.  I am trying to see if there are more
	general "meta searches" available.   I am aware of the computational
	restrictions/requirements for building different types of tools,
	and the need for high performance on large data bases almost demands
	specialized implementations.
4.  If you had a wish list,  what NEW facilties,  tools, commands, etc.,
	would you want?

Please mail me replies;  I will summarize in 2 weeks time.
Prof. Patrick Powell, Dept. Computer Science, 136 Lind Hall, 207 Church St. SE,
University of Minnesota,  Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612)625-3543/625-4002