Hi Chris, Coming to the USA is hard for us in the UK. What I'd really like is for O'Reilly to do the Bioinformatics conference again - that way there'd be a good technical stream and enough bioinformatics to make it worthwhile. BioIT word doesn't have the same grab for the people who pay my expenses, though maybe I could work on them if that's the only way. A single day just on bioclusters would be cost effective. Jeremy Maris -- Jeremy Maris, Computing Manager, School of Life Sciences, John Maynard Smith Building, University of Sussex, Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QG j.maris@sussex.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1273 678060 Fax: +44 (0) 1273 678611