Greetings fellow Lab Rats! I would like to announce that I have earned my "Master of Science in Chemistry/Biochemistry" degree from Boston College. This comes with my completion of the degree requirements this fall semester. My future plans are centered entirely around this organization (The Open Lab) and The Loci Project. I will be entering the Doctoral Biochemistry Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, where operations have been based since the organization's inception. Yes, this is where I earned my undergraduate degree in chemistry, but it is most important to me that I am able to continue my work with The Open Lab, and I believe I would not have that luxury anywhere else. Bigger and better: I am working with our advisors (Ken Marx, Rob Harrison and David Lapointe) and administrators (Gary Van Domselaar, Pete St. Onge and Mark Luo) to expand and improve services at The Open Lab. Each expansion or improvement will be announced as it is made, but I can give you a hint as to our plans: (1) donation and purchase of more computing hardware, including some Big Iron to serve Loci applications; (2) change of name to include "BIOINFORMATICS.ORG", which we will soon be able to use as a domain; (3) continued development of the bioinformatics portal, which started with the "Bioinformatics GNU's" news list; and (4) grant awards and corporate sponsorship. I would like to thank the advisors, administrators, project coordinators (Justin Bradford, SooHaeng Yoo, Thomas Sicheritz, Rick Ree and Carlos Maltzahn), and everyone else, ALL volunteers of their time and effort to make this organization successful. I think we have a bright future ahead! Cheers. Jeff -- +----------------------------------+ | J.W. Bizzaro | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/~jeff/ | | | | THE OPEN LAB | | Open Source Bioinformatics | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | +----------------------------------+