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[cherry at Frodo.MGH.Harvard.EDU]

In article <francis.734639152 at monod>, francis at monod.Biol.McGill.CA (Francis Ouellette) writes:
>CHERRY at FRODO.MGH.HARVARD.EDU (Mike Cherry 726-5955) writes:
>
>>Francis Ouellette (francis at monod.Biol.McGill.CA) writes:
>
>>>maybe this is a reason why we should have a general genome software
>>>group, and not one specific to C. elegans. Maybe bionet.software.genome
>>>would be a better idea (quick, where is my asbestos suit ... :)
>
>>The proposed bionet.software.acedb group is NOT a group for questions
>>about the worm database.
>
>sorry Mike, but a name like "bionet.software.ACeDB"

Its bionet.software.acedb, the name of the software is ACEDB.
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>will invite ACeDB users to ask questions about C. elegans ...

But it is perfectly fine that worm db users ask questions about their
use of the database ACEDB. Just as it is fine for Arabidopsis db users
to ask about AAtDB, or mycobacteria researchers to ask about MycDB, or
soybean db users to ask about SoyBase, or wheat db users to ask about
GrainGenes, on and on and on... All of these are databases using the
ACEDB software.

>Are you not worried about this?

No, Questions about any db using the ACEDB software is included in the
charter.

>>I believe there are enough people using the ACEDB software (for
>>whatever organism) to justify a separate group.
>
>>bionet.software.acedb = the ACEDB software discussions
>>                                  ^^^^^^^^
>
>OK, but be aware of:
>
>>bionet.software.acedb = the ACEDB software discussions
                               ^^

The software is called ACEDB. I don't think the users of the various
databases have that much trouble with the duel meaning of ACEDB.
Generally most of them will know the name as referring to a software
program that lets them view the information on their organism of
interest.

Mike Cherry