"Alan J. Williams" wrote: > > 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. I just took a peek at what you have, and it looks very nice. Are you planning on selling advertising? BioInfo will probably become a portal but more specific to bioinformatics. We are looking to add longer feature articles/editorials, Yahoo!-like links pages (BioWho? or BioHoo!), and I think an events calendar would be nice too. Let me know when you are ready to announce molbio.org and I'll post it on BioInfo. Cheers. Jeff > > 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. > -- +------------------------------------+ | | | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at bioinformatics.org | | | | THE OPEN COLLABORATORY | | FOR MOLECULAR BIOINFORMATICS | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | | | +------------------------------------+