From owner-diagnostics@net.bio.net Wed May 21 23:00:00 1997 Path: biosci!biosci!not-for-mail From: David Kristofferson Newsgroups: bionet.diagnostics Subject: IMPORTANT - BIOSCI moving to Stanford! Date: 22 May 1997 01:36:49 -0700 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 55 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Approved: odonnell@sasa.gov.uk Distribution: world Message-ID: <5m10j1$65r@net.bio.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net After more than a decade of serving the biology community on the BIOSCI project, I have decided that it is time for me to pass the torch. The demands of my career and family are making it increasingly difficult for me to run BIOSCI adequately on a part-time basis, and I've decided that I would do the project more harm than good by clinging to it. Therefore I have concluded an agreement with the Stanford University Libraries to take over the management of the BIOSCI project effective 6 June 1997. Many of you know the work of the Stanford Libraries through HighWire Press which has done an excellent job bringing the Journal of Biological Chemistry, Science Magazine, and other prestigious journals to the WWW (see http://highwire.stanford.edu/). I have every confidence that Stanford will provide an environment where the BIOSCI project can flourish. The BIOSCI team at Daresbury will continue to support the project in Europe, and Dave Mack and Julie Lawrence on the current BIOSCI staff will continue to assist the new team at Stanford. The project will be managed by Serge Taylor of the Stanford Libraries who is responsible for developing Web-based "knowledge environments" for scientists. I will still participate with the project in an advisory capacity but have to phase myself out of day-to-day operations. Many of you who read bionet.announce, bionet.biology.computational, and bionet.jobs.offered (the groups that I moderate) have been aware of the recent posting delays that my busy schedule has inflicted on those newsgroups. I am pleased to announce that Todd McGee, Scientific Advisor of the HighWire Press, will be taking over moderation of those groups from me this week. ** NOTE ** - The BIOSCI hardware will be down for backups on 6 June and will be moved over the weekend of June 7 and 8. We will be changing the IP number of the machine, but the host name and all mailing addresses will remain unchanged. There may be a few days of service disruption during this time due to the move unfortunately, just as we experienced in BIOSCI's previous move. We hope to keep this to a minimum. We will post status reports on the move to bionet.announce before and after it happens. Please watch that newsgroup for details. It has been a pleasure serving all of you since the "early days" of biology on the Internet. I've had the pleasure of not only "knowing" many of you over the Internet, but have also met literally thousands of biologists around the U.S. and elsewhere during the many Internet training seminars that I gave over the last decade. I've been truly fortunate to have been given the chance to play a role in the growth of biology on the Internet. This is something I will always treasure. Sincerely, Dave Kristofferson BIOSCI/bionet Manager biosci-help@net.bio.net .