Along these lines, I have started to put together a bioinformatics and molecular biology jump site at www.molbio.org. Currently the only thing up and running is the news service. It allows for posting to molbio.org by anyone from the web. I want to add a catalog of web resources that can be updated by anyone from the web before I announce the site, which is why I haven't mentioned it to date. On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Gary Van Domselaar wrote: > > What do you think should be in a bioinformatics portal? > > TOL's bioinfo is _exactly_ what I was thinking ;-) Add hot current > events in bioinformatics with a hierachically organized database like > yahoo. Then we pass an XML standard for bioinformatics documents that > allows us to catalog them in our database. Once XML takes over the > Internet we release a web-crawler that updates the database > automagically. Then we sit back and get rich and fat. ************************************************************************ Alan Williams ------------------------------------------------------------------------ University of California, Riverside "Where observation is concerned, Dept. of Botany and Plant Sciences chance favors the prepared mind." Alan at TheWilliamsFamily.org -- Louis Pasteur ************************************************************************