We are both a real Bioinformatics mutual support group (meetings
monthly at the best local mini-breweries for beer-drinking and
discussions of hardware and software) as well as a virtual community
of about 40 members communicating via email. On the average about
10 people attend monthly meetings at the local pubs. Most of us
provide hardware and software support to university molecular
biology depts or BioTech companies. The group started out with
most people running GCG, but some now run DNA* and other programs
or specialize in sub-areas of
molecular biology computing. Some of us run DNA sequencing or
synthesis facilities etc.
Access to the virtual community is via sending email to
bambct-list@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu
to directly get to all members on our mail exploder list.
You should post almost anything reasonable--job openings, requests
for help, tips on new
programs or Web sites, etc.
On occasion we have seminars or show-and-tell meetings to discuss
issues
many of us are interested in. We have had presentations on uses
of
Webservers in our Departments, large-scale DNA sequencing contig
assembly, new GCG programs (presented by GCG), open source bioinformatics
software.
Your suggestions are welcome.
Lance
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