BIOME News

Paula Manning, BIOME Service Manager     pm@biome.ac.uk

Ariadne 2001
(ReLIS:doi:doiari:y:2001:i:26:p:14)

Abstract:

We were delighted that, despite terrible weather and transport conditions, many people attended the official launch of the BIOME Service at The Royal Society on 2nd November. Some interesting facts were presented at the launch. In addition to an introduction to our new Service, http://biome.ac.uk/ by Karen Stanton, Director of Information Services at Nottingham University, delegates were informed that not only were they 98 percent related to chimps, but that their genes show 60 percent similarity to bananas! We were presented with these facts during an entertaining talk by Professor Steve Jones, renowned geneticist and author, who illustrated the importance of the internet in scientific research, especially with regard to dissemination of sequence data such as that obtained from the human genome project. Michael Wills, Minister for Learning and Technology gave the key note speech, presenting his vision of the developing role of the Internet in the delivery and support of education and knowledge and Dr Denis Blight , Director General of CAB International spoke about information management within the agricultural and veterinary sectors. The afternoon session of the launch consisted of workshops aligned with the subject areas of the five BIOME gateways and we are extremely grateful for the valuable input from participants. The comments and suggestions provided will play an important part in our development planning.

Note: Paula Manning reports on recent developments within BIOME, the health and life sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network (RDN).
Month: 10-January-2001
Year: 2001

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