Yeah, I realized that just after I sent that message. $2M ? Seems like a lot but if you've invested $20 million( or more) in sequencing hardware what's $2M to make it work? Are you talking about Collaboratories? That is an interesting concept. David David Lapointe Manager - Research Computing Services UMass Medical School Worcester, MA 01655 508/856-5141 > -----Original Message----- > From: J.W. Bizzaro [mailto:bizzaro at bc.edu] > Sent: Friday, February 26, 1999 5:06 PM > To: tulip-list at busboy.sped.ukans.edu > Subject: Re: [Pipet Devel] Check out this URL > > > Jeeeez! Does the concept seem a little familiar? BTW, this > is the same company > from which I got the first pics. > > You know, I have been thinking seriously about taking Loci > one step further and making it a system for Internet-wide research collaboratives, > between loosely affiliated people. It's something I still have to clear with > Ken Marx, but I was thinking that we, The BIC Group, could use Loci to > collaborate on some "open" research projects, making an "open laboratory" that > treats scientific research like a GNU software project. Any thoughts? > > > Jeff > bizzaro at bc.edu >