Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!uunet!munnari!murdu!morrow
From: morrow@murdu.OZ (Christopher Morrow)
Newsgroups: aus.mbio,bionet.general
Subject: Molecular Biology Techniques, Recipes
Keywords: Recipes, Maniatis, Update, Manual
Message-ID: <1510@murdu.OZ>
Date: 18 Jan 89 06:03:41 GMT
Organization: Comp Sci, Melbourne Uni, Australia
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What with waiting out here in the antipodes for a new version of
Maniatis (Molecular Cloning: A laboratory manual) to be published
and seeing alternative texts appearing I suggest that bionet think
about establishing a newsgroup for techniques similar to 
alt.gourmand on usenet.

Alt.gourmand is a moderated newsgroup (that is all published items
have been reviewed by a moderator) that publishes food recipes.  It
was set up by Brian Reid as an experiment.  The idea was that modern
technology was going to make the world into a global village: 
computer programmes could possibly help do this.  The suite of
programmes allows formatting  and printing of recipes in a device
independent manner (ie it does not matter what machine or printer you
have).  Brian will only post recipes that he thinks are interesting
and the submitter has tried themselves.

Well, My suggestion is that a similar group be set up for Molecular
biology recipes.   Information included could be the technique,
materials, suppliers, handy hints and advantages.  Readers could print
off those techiques that the thought of use in the standard format and
put them in their Lab technique folder.  Imagine having a laser
printed protocol that everyone could read.  Even the lab boss!

Chris Morrow
A Vet on UNIX

Check out Alt.gourmand.  It has an archive and even recipes for stout.