From owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Jan 7 19:26:47 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id A944317B24 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:26:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53B3D17B31 for ; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:26:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6023) id E5F1317B3D; Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id D7F9A17B11 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:38:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rutgers.rutgers.edu (rutgers.edu [165.230.4.76]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79C3117AA6 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 23:38:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp3.google.com (smtp3.google.com [216.239.33.28]) by rutgers.rutgers.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA25161 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 18:38:23 -0500 (EST) Received: from exins2.exo.google.com (exins2.prod.google.com [10.4.0.8]) by smtp3.google.com with ESMTP id PAA09349 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:37:52 -0800 Received: from sjmm36.sj.google.com (sjmm36.prod.google.com [10.6.39.36]) by exins2.exo.google.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA23977 for ; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:37:52 -0800 Received: (from news@localhost) by sjmm36.sj.google.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA01762 for bionet-biology-computational@moderators.isc.org; Wed, 2 Jan 2002 15:37:52 -0800 To: bionet-biology-computational@moderators.isc.org From: vj_iupui@yahoo.com (Vijay) Newsgroups: bionet.biology.computational Subject: Cancer Informatics ..., Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Message-ID: <7f8d4f60.0201021537.3593cb8b@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1010014671 1761 127.0.0.1 (2 Jan 2002 23:37:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 2 Jan 2002 23:37:52 GMT Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2002 19:26:22 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-comp-bio@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Dear all, I am a Graduate Student doing MS in Bioinformatics at IUPUI (Indiana Univ Purdue Univ Indianapolis). I am working as Research Assistant in Purdue Comp Sci Dept. I have some experience with Web Development, Java, Information Filtering, Artificial Intelligence, Databases and Distributed Computing. I am also a born biologist. Right now I have decided to do a study on the following topic "Informatics Approach for Cancer". (I would like to develop a comprehensive tool or application which would be helpful for stakeholders in Cancer) I searched the internet over past weeks continously and got quite a bulk of information on this topic. I found that most of the information on cancer are scattered, repeated and badly distributed. I would like to hear from the stakeholders (Scientists, Doctors, Nurses, Medical Students, Patients ...) about their real information need. If you are one of them, please answer these questions. 1 How you are getting the "needed" information (Scientific Papers, NCBI Databases, Lab Notebooks...) now? 2 What would be an ideal informatics solution? 3 Are you using any such system right now (other than library and search engines)? 4 How much time and energy you are spending on collecting information? 5 Are you missing information (say an important research article) using your current methods? 6 Will you be willing to pay a small amount if you are able to get customized information anywhere at anytime? 7 What are other questions that I should ask? 8 Any other opinion or comments? 9 Do you know anyone working on a similar or closely related project? If so please give their contact Thanks in advance!!! Cheers and Happy 2002, --Vj Vijay Narayanasamy vj_iupui@yahoo.com .