Currently the Survey Committee is compiling information from the questionnaire sent with the September issue of ABRF News evaluating satisfaction with the newsletter. Of the approximately 600 members of ABRF, 101 have responded. This includes 58 Directors, 38 Associate Members, and 5 Corporate Sponsors. These respondents have a total of 385 years of ABRF membership among them. We will continue to compile survey responses as they arrive, until December 31.
Our current survey concerning instrument satisfaction should arrive in member laboratories by December 1. The goal of the survey is to query current users for their level of satisfaction with the instruments available. To complete the survey, member laboratories will choose from a list of coded instruments and then rate them using a number from one to five, with five being the best rating and one the worst. At this point the list contains six carbohydrate analysis instruments, thirteen capillary electrophoresis instruments, seventeen peptide synthesizers, eleven protein sequencers, ten amino acid analyzers, thirty-six mass spectrometers, twenty-four DNA synthesizers, and thirteen DNA sequencers. We hope to present the results of this survey at ABRF '96: Biomolecular Techniques.
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