Autoseq news

[Muhammad Lodhi]

>In article <01HKQQ498QUQ0006O7 at aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu>,
>BROE at AARDVARK.UCS.UOKNOR.EDU (Bruce Roe) wrote:
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>>  You write:
>> => Dear autosequencers ,
>> =>
>> =>      I am trying to establish if there is any intrest out there in an
>> => autosequence newsgroup
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>> I started one several years ago as an e-mail list that evolved into this
>> news group.  So this is the place to post these messages and discuss them.
>>
>> This is the news group to use, it already exists, tell everyone and go for
>> it.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
>>
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>   And yet most of the autosequencing postings seem to go to
>bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts rather than to here.  Maybe the phrase
>"genome.chromosomes" does not sufficiently connote automated sequencing.
>I know it took me a while to discover it, and I do automated sequencing
>and read the newsgroups regularly.
>   Here's an idea.  If we do not want to create a whole new group, how
>about changing the name of bionet.genome.chromosomes to include
>autosequencing?  Otherwise I expect that many users will continue to post
>to bionet.molbio.methds-reagnts because that title sounds more
>appropriate. Just a thought.
>
>Lawrence Washington
>Indiana Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology
>
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>Lawrence Washington
>Indiana University
>Institute for Molecular
> and Cellular Biology
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I agree with Lawrence, as the name is misleading to some extend.  I have
been posting messages related with sequencing to the methods-reagents
newsgroup.

Muhammad A. Lodhi
Cold Spring Harbor Lab.