US biologists propose launch of electronic preprint archive

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A group of US scientists, led by Patrick Brown a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Stanford University School of Medicine, and David Lipman, director of the US National Council for Biotechnology INformation (NCBI), are planning to establish an e-print archive. This would come under a single website with papers being posted, archived and distributed automatically. The archives could benefit from direct indexing and linking through NCBI's PubMed database.

Records and correspondence, Medical sciences, Information storage and retrieval systems, Archival materials

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ESA faces economies to pay for Ariane launch failure

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European Space Agency (ESA) officials disclosed that the Ariane-5's failed maiden launch will not only delay the program by a year but will increase its cost by some $362 million as well. They stated that the additional cost will have to be taken out of existing budgets and other ESA programs. Investigators looking into the Ariane-5's explosion believe that software errors caused the rocket to veer of course and break up.

Product development, Finance, European Space Agency, Ariane (Rocket)

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Celera in talks to launch private sector human proteome project

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Celera Genomics is planning an industrial scale Human Proteome Project with the aim of identifying the properties and functions of each protein expressed in an organism. The company is in negotiations with Denis Hochstrasser, a founder of GenBio, with a view to combining new technologies with the 2-D electrophoretic gel technique.

Research, Usage, Gel electrophoresis, Proteins

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