From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Sat Sep 09 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!in2.uu.net!news.compuserve.com!news.production.compuserve.com!news From: Patrick R. Jones <102570.2734@CompuServe.COM> Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing,bionet.molbio.bio-matrix,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.gdb Subject: Need Help Date: 10 Sep 1995 20:08:40 GMT Organization: Personal Lines: 19 Message-ID: <42vgk8$og2$8@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.ageing:1947 bionet.molbio.bio-matrix:632 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:540 bionet.molbio.evolution:3432 bionet.molbio.gdb:360 I am a undergraduate student in biology. Some day I hope to go to graduate school in biochemistry. My grades are good enough but I am afraid that this may not be enough to get in. I am looking for something to set myself apart from the other students. At this point I am at a loss on what to do. I have no real resources to work on projects in the areas that interest me. Does anybody have any ideas? I do have one useful skill. I am a professional computer programmer. I don’t mean someone who has taken a FORTRAN class and is working as a work-study student, but a 10 year application programming veteran in the computing industry. If I could use this skill great if not, I don’t care. I need something to further my career; something good. Please help!!! I know that somebody out there knows of something I could do. Thank you for your time!!! Patrick R. Jones -- <> From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Mon Sep 11 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing,bionet.molbio.bio-matrix,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.gdb Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.math.psu.edu!psuvax1!gvls1!newsfeed.pitt.edu!godot.cc.duq.edu!news.duke.edu!news-server.ncren.net!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!murdoch!darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU!mgk From: mgk@darwin.clas.Virginia.EDU (Mahlon G. Kelly) Subject: Re: Need Help X-Nntp-Posting-Host: darwin.clas.virginia.edu Message-ID: Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: uva References: <42vgk8$og2$8@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 06:23:38 GMT Lines: 33 Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.ageing:1949 bionet.molbio.bio-matrix:633 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:541 bionet.molbio.evolution:3445 bionet.molbio.gdb:361 Patrick R. Jones writes: > I am a undergraduate student in biology. Some day I hope to go to > graduate school in biochemistry. My grades are good enough but I > am afraid that this may not be enough to get in. I am looking for > something to set myself apart from the other students. At this > point I am at a loss on what to do. I have no real resources to > work on projects in the areas that interest me. Does anybody have > any ideas? I do have one useful skill. I am a professional > computer programmer. I don’t mean someone who has taken a FORTRAN > class and is working as a work-study student, but a 10 year > application programming veteran in the computing industry. If I > could use this skill great if not, I don’t care. I need something > to further my career; something good. Please help!!! I know that > somebody out there knows of something I could do. > > Thank you for your time!!! > Patrick R. Jones > > -- > <> Certainly there must be some investigator, either in your university or at a nearby medical center, who would be only too happy to use your skills in a for-credit research project. That would certainly look good on your application. Another hint: try to get to know your faculty members well enough that when it comes time to get letters of recommendation they can write something fairly personal, not just a form letter that says they had you in a class. -- Associate Professor (Emeritus) University of Virginia mgk@darwin.clas.virginia.edu From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Wed Sep 13 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!apollo.it.luc.edu!usenet From: nonn et al Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing,bionet.molbio.bio-matrix,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.gdb Subject: Re: Need Help Date: 14 Sep 1995 02:21:56 GMT Organization: Loyola univ Chicago Lines: 2 Message-ID: <4383k4$dcj@apollo.it.luc.edu> References: <42vgk8$og2$8@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.126.163.163 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.2b2 (Windows; I; 16bit) To: 102570.2734@CompuServe.COM Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.ageing:1950 bionet.molbio.bio-matrix:634 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:542 bionet.molbio.evolution:3461 bionet.molbio.gdb:363 Grades are not enough, publish like a fiend and suck up to the big guns! From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Fri Sep 15 23:00:00 1995 Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!news.sprintlink.net!in1.uu.net!news1.digital.com!ames!lll-winken.llnl.gov!fnnews.fnal.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!NewsWatcher!user From: cherbert@cco.caltech.edu (Curtis Herbert) Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing,bionet.molbio.bio-matrix,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.gdb Subject: Re: Need Help Date: Fri, 15 Sep 1995 18:48:47 +0900 Organization: Caltech Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <42vgk8$og2$8@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 131.215.249.3 Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.ageing:1952 bionet.molbio.bio-matrix:635 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:543 bionet.molbio.evolution:3480 bionet.molbio.gdb:365 In article <42vgk8$og2$8@mhafn.production.compuserve.com>, Patrick R. Jones <102570.2734@CompuServe.COM> wrote: > I am a undergraduate student in biology. Some day I hope to go to > graduate school in biochemistry. My grades are good enough but I > am afraid that this may not be enough to get in. I am looking for > something to set myself apart from the other students. snip > > -- > <> Who's law? I also urge you to try to do some undergraduate research. Make up a little resume and hand-deliver it to some likely faculty members. Ask them who might be interested in you. Also try to keep an eye open for ways to apply your background; you have a valuable skill. You might mention it to some of the faculty types. Also, a better posting for this sort of thing might be: alt.grad-student.tenured Curtis H. From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Sat Sep 16 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.ageing,bionet.molbio.bio-matrix,bionet.molbio.embldatabank,bionet.molbio.evolution,bionet.molbio.gdb Path: biosci!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!utnut!utzoo!mes From: mes@zoo.toronto.edu (Mark Siddall) Subject: Re: Need Help Message-ID: Date: Sun, 17 Sep 1995 05:37:33 GMT References: <42vgk8$og2$8@mhafn.production.compuserve.com> <4383k4$dcj@apollo.it.luc.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 17 Xref: biosci bionet.molbio.ageing:1953 bionet.molbio.bio-matrix:636 bionet.molbio.embldatabank:544 bionet.molbio.evolution:3490 bionet.molbio.gdb:366 In article <4383k4$dcj@apollo.it.luc.edu> nonn et al writes: >Grades are not enough, publish like a fiend and suck up to the big guns! > Good point, though I would add that any sucking up (or even lack thereof) is going to make people think "Hmmm. what camp are they in...?" and you will inevitably be taken on those grounds rather than for what you might have to say. It's a shame, but as a young phylogeneticist, I assure you it's true. If there's one thing that the majority does NOT respect out there... it's a firm conviction. So don't have one... you'll go further. -- Mark E. Siddall "I don't mind a parasite... mes@vims.edu I object to a cut-rate one" Virginia Inst. Marine Sci. - Rick Gloucester Point, VA, 23062 From owner-embldatabank@net.bio.net Thu Sep 28 23:00:00 1995 Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.embldatabank Path: biosci!bcm.tmc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!torn!blaze.trentu.ca!IVORY.trentu.ca!GMCKENZIE From: gmckenzie@ivory.trentu.ca (NAME) Subject: DNA sequence analysis via the net X-Nntp-Posting-Host: trentu.ca Message-ID: Sender: news@blaze.trentu.ca (USENET News System) Reply-To: gmckenzie@ivory.trentu.ca Organization: Trent University, Peterborough Date: Fri, 29 Sep 1995 15:52:51 GMT Lines: 4 I am a 4th yr undergrad at a small Canadian Univ with a background in Mol. Bio and Genetics. Consequently I am taking a Computer Sci course thats premise is to answer an academic que. via the "net" With my background in the above i want to take a nucleic acid sequence and do: homology, phylogeny, seq. alignment and get some inferences about secondary and tertiary structure which would enable me to have an insight about possible function. I am aware of blast, fasta, Swiss-prot and phylip. I am "green" on th i s as is the faculty here. I am having trouble planning a logical plan of attack in regards to which sequences of programs to utilize i.e. order of events to reach my desired goal. I have use of Unix machines and DEC workstations for molecualr graphics like Rasmol. Any info in regards to this would be greatly appreciated. Thanx G. McKenzie GMcKenzie@Trentu.ca