This Bionet discussion list will be turned off in April

[Don Gilbert]

PLEASE NOTE:
This Bionet discussion service will be turned of in April, next month,
due to new Indiana University policy to remove scientist-run services
such as this one. This discussion network seeks a new supporting
organization for http://www.bio.net/

Discussion of Bionet's future can proceed on the list Bionet.general,
email: biof...@net.bio.net, or see this Google Groups copy,
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/bionet.general
which should survive the IU shutdown.

Suggestions and comments may also be emailed to me at
gilbert...@gmail.com, please request anonymity if desired.

See also this notice about Bionet at
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27523v1

A host organization that will maintain or expand this unique resource
is sought. Suggestions include (1) an established biology-oriented
center that already maintains public E-mail lists with the popular
GNU-Mailman system used by Biosci; (2) open-access science
communication credentials; (3) possible re-location to an Old World
home, in Europe or Asia-Pacific, as Bionet receives continuing high
use from these areas. The alternative of a new institutional home for
Bionet will be up to group members, with options of commercial
offerings like Google Groups, Twitter, FaceBook, and others.

-- Don Gilbert
E-mail: gilbert...@gmail.com or gilb...@indiana.edu

[Catherine Lawson]

Don,

Thanks for letting us know.

This bionet group has not been active in recent years in any case (I have served as volunteer administrator for more than two decades).

The protein crystallography community has a number of much-more-active discussion channels through software-associated discussion groups (e.g., ccp4bb, phenix). My suggestion to list members would be to join these other discussions.

I do hope that archived posts from the bionet protein-crystallography listserve will remain available and searchable. Do we need to find a new home even if only for archiving?

thanks,

Cathy Lawson