Thanks for the information. I brought up your upcoming newsgroup
questionnaire at the last conference call of the ABRF DNA Sequencing
Research Committee. The deadline for submissions to our current survey is
the end of next week. This is the deadline for data to be included in the
analysis of the survey that will be presented in the ABRF'98 meeting in
March of this year in San Diego. However, the survey is designed to be an
ongoing project. The committe will be discussing how we could work together
later this year. I would be interested to hear your ideas on how we might
improve our survey and how our respective surveys might complement and
reinforce each other. Moreover, I would like to know what your "reward to
participants" will be. A trip to Hawaii? A lottery for a new 377? Lets
keep in touch.
- George
At 08:51 PM 2/3/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi George ,
>
>Thanks for your email , I got a few mentioning the ABRF survey but what I
>was trying to create was a new support system for the newsgroup using a
>web site that I am trying to develop partially to replace the old FTP site
>.
>
>I have noticed that users are more likely to complete on-line questionares
>and ideally if those questionare have an apple at the end of them . I am
>working on a web site that should offer a reward to participants and allow
>the collection of data and support to the newsgroup while remaining self
>funding and independant . I will keep you all informed when it is ready
>for launch
>
>I have actually just signed up to the ABRF as an associate member , my
>previous employers were a little scepticle about allowing me to join
>organisations where they saw no profit to themselves .
>
>Let me know if you want to approach this problem as a combined effort I
>am sure that we could work on it together .
>
>Sincerely ,
>
>David Cain
>
>
>
>
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George Grills
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DNA Sequencing and Oligonucleotide Facilities
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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