[Pipet Devel] summary for web page and announcements

[Jarl van Katwijk]

>
>     Well, before we start announcing we should probably actually
> decide on a final name for the program...

Good thinking.

>
> Hedgehog
>
> Why? What the heck are you talking about, Brad?

:)

>
>     Well, the hedgehog family of proteins are a really important set
> of molecules for controlling development in flies and mammalian
> systems. They are signal transduction proteins that pass
> developmental information from cell to cell and are responsible for
> proper formation of patterning in developing embryos (so they help
> detemine what if your back and front and right and left sides).
>     So I thought this was analagous to vsh/loci/gms/overflow in the
> following way:
>
> Biology                           Our program
> --------                          ----------
> cell-cell communication   => program-to-program communication
> proper embryo development => proper workflow development
>
> So Hedgehog is a protein that coordinates cells to develop in a good
> way, and vsh is a program that coordinates programs and libraries to
> flow together in a good way.
>
>     Whadda you all think? The added advantages are that it has a easy
> acronym (hh) and that we can put pictures of hedgehogs on our site
> without people taking us away to the mental hospital :-)

At last!
Hedgehog sounds ok, but aint there some other project around that's
already
using this name?

bye,
jarl

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