Rebecca,
Unfortunately, there will not be a protein sequencing study this year. In the throes
of the Executive Boards process of rethinking its proteomics strategy, and the change
of the PSRG (protein sequencing research group) to the PARG (protein analysis) the
study designed by our group was not approved by the board. Their criticisms of our
study (which would have encouraged participants to identify as many components as
possible from a lyophilized test sample consisting of a complex mixture of intact
proteins, the components of variable abundancy, with two proteins more abundant
relative to the others and identifiable by EDMAN) included that they "did not feel
that it would lead to data suitable for publication as the subject was too general,
did not ask sufficiently well defined questions and would not return data that would
have any statistical significance or impact on the scientific community."
I also regret the EB's decision to dissolve our group at ABRF'01 (at which point our
efforts thus far will have served for naught) as part of an ongoing Research Group
restructuring exercise.
Linda
(PARG, co-chair)
Linda Siconolfi-Baez
Laboratory for Macromolecular Analysis
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Ullman 405
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, N.Y.10461
718-430-2864
lsiconol@aecom.yu.edu
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>From: Rebecca Ettling <ettlingr@musc.edu>
>To: Recipients of ABRF List <abrf@aecom.yu.edu>
>Subject: Prot Seq Res Group
>Date: Thu, Oct 26, 2000, 9:51 AM
>
>Will there be a Protein sequencing study this year ? I don't see it
>listed.
>
>-- Rebecca P. Ettling
>Biotechnology Resource Laboratory
>Protein Sequencing and Peptide Synthesis Facility
>Medical University of South Carolina
>173 Ashley Avenue, Room 733D BSB
>Charleston, SC 29403
>Tel.: (843) 792-1271
>Fax: (843) 792-1264
>
>If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the
>shoulders of giants.--Isaac Newton
>
>
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