From: broe@aardvark.ucs.uoknor.edu (Bruce Roe)
Newsgroups: bionet.genome.chrom22
Subject: Re: State of the 22-bulletin board
Date: 24 Jul 92 12:04:00 GMT
Distribution: bionet
Organization: University of Oklahoma - University Computing Services
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In response to Nancy's posting, I don't see why Dave K. gets so bent
out of shape when a usenet new group is not used very often.  What's
the big deal here?  I love David dearly and have know him for years
and can only think that threatening to "loose the bbd" will maybe get
everyone to actually use it!!

Just to keep everyone up-to-date on our sequencing progress, we
are sequencing the cabl gene on 9 and the bcr gene on 22 and about
half done with each.  Should have both done before the end of this
year and then will proceed with sequencing relevant regions of chrom22.
I'm depending on ya'll to feed us with P1 and cosmid clones of your
favorate region of chrom22 and appropriate maps so that we can sequence
them.

Please contact me personally if you want further details about our
sequencing plans, the possibility of collaborations, or anything else.

Cheers..........bruce
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In article <9207232148.AA02107@esds01.es.dupont.com>, shephens@esvax.dnet.dupont.com writes...
>As was mentioned earlier in a memo from Dave Kristofferson, the chromosome 
>22 community is likely to loose this bulletin board if the use does not 
>increase to an average of one message per week.  We are well into 1992 and 
>I am fairly certain that this will not be met unless traffic increases 
>dramatically.  Maybe it was simply just an idea before its time, but I am 
>sincerely astonished at the lack of use.  For example, other than a reply 
>from Peter Pearson of GDB, there was no bulletin board response to Jonathan 
>Haines request for chromosome 22 GT repeats to map.  Why?  I know there is 
>an up-coming chromosome 22 meeting, but I haven't seen any bulletin board 
>traffic about it (or have I???).  I suggested that everyone give a brief 
>comment about their more recent research efforts and interest on the 
>chromosome, but there was again only a few responses.  From my inquiry 
>concerning who is READING the board, I had approximately 20 responses... so 
>someone IS out there.  Finally, in February of this year, Johnathan Haines 
>mentioned that he hoped to have primer sequences, map locations etc. in a 
>little database, and hopefully others are doing the same.  Will there be 
>any effort to alert the chromosome 22 community about new submissions to 
>GDB for the chromosome or will others have any inclination to use the 
>bulletin board for dissemination of such?  
>     Finally, I would just like to mention that my username has changed to 
>"SHEPHENS@esvax.dnet.dupont.com" (rather than Shepherd), and that as part 
>of a pharmaceutical company my research efforts are changing with the goals 
>of the company (not uncommon).  I therefore will not be attending the 
>meeting in Philadelphia and hope to see the results of the meeting on THIS 
>bulletin board! Also, we did make some progress on getting chromosome 22
>clones in the P1 vector system, but will not at this time pursue the
>project further. Nancy  P.S.  What makes the Arabidopsis 
>newsgroup so successful?