From owner-celegans@net.bio.net Thu Dec 12 22:00:00 1996 Path: biosci!cc.umanitoba.ca!gordonr From: gordonr@cc.umanitoba.ca (Richard Gordon) Newsgroups: bionet.celegans Subject: Re: Cyberworm Date: 12 Dec 1996 17:07:58 -0800 Organization: BIOSCI International Newsgroups for Molecular Biology Lines: 53 Sender: daemon@net.bio.net Distribution: world Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: net.bio.net Dear Jeff, Not clear if you're volunteering yourself and/or John White. This will be a lot of hard work, but coordination could certainly reduce the effort and let us get on with the deeper questions that Cyberworm may help answer. Yours, -Dick At 10:20 AM 12/11/96, Jeff Hardin wrote: >Richard Gordon writes: > >"We would like to write a 4D database/simulation to be called Cyberworm. As >a database, it would contain and accumulate coordinates, cytoskeletal >arrangements, cell division times, gene expression and other data for each >cell in the developing nematode." > >Dick- > >Nice to see you're interested in C. elegans (I remember your work with >Antone Jacobson, from when I was a grad student in Ray Keller's lab). As a >fairly recent convert to worms, I think it's a good move! One group you >should certainly interact with closely is John White's (maybe mine, too) at >the Univ. of Wisconsin, since I know they ultimately had a goal of >generating 4d info on C.e. for use in education and research as an >international resource, based on the digital software under development at >the Integrated Micrscopy Resource. It seems really counterproductive to >have multiple efforts of this sort going on without coordination of >efforts. I strongly urge close coordination of such efforts across the C. >e. community. This would avoid some of the (not necessarily unfriendly) >competition of technologies that we saw for a time with the databases >(i.e., Acedb vs. WCS, which was obviated by the World Wide Web). > >Having said this, I think that this sort of a project is, in theory, a nice >idea! > >Cheers, > >Jeff > >----------------------------------------------------------- >Jeff Hardin - Dept. of Zoology - Univ. of Wisconsin >1117 W. Johnson St. - Madison, WI 53706 USA >voice: (608) 262-9634 - fax: (608) 262-9083 >email: jdhardin@facstaff.wisc.edu >WWW: http://www.wisc.edu/zoology/faculty/fac/Har/Har.html >----------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Gordon, Department of Radiology University of Manitoba, Room ON104, Health Sciences Centre 820 Sherbrook Street, Winnipeg, MB R3A 1R9 Canada Phone: (204) 789-3828, Fax: (204) 787-2080, Home: (204) 589-0411 E-mail: GordonR@cc.UManitoba.ca .