In article <1992Jun3.093821.24780 at urz.unibas.ch> bickle at urz.unibas.ch writes:
>In article <1992Jun2.233141.22582 at welchgate.welch.jhu.edu>, ken at welchgate.welch.jhu.edu (Ken Fasman) writes:
>>>> At the risk of using too loose an analogy, I think this is like saying that
>> groups about DEC's operating system shouldn't include "vms" in their names
>> because not everyone knows what "VMS" stands for (do you? ;-) ). Or "IBM"?
>> Certainly, our name recognition is orders of magnitude less than theirs.
>> However, like it or not, the name by which most of the genetics community
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> knows us is "GDB", not Genome Data Base (although that is our official name).
>> The same is true for Genbank, PIR, PDB, Swiss-Prot, etc.
>>>I've just run this past some dozen assorted geneticists in different
>fields. Couldn't find one who knew what GDB stands for.
>>Tom Bickle
Please forgive me. I should have said "most of the HUMAN GENOME MAPPING
community." Sorry for the imprecision. :-)
Ken Fasman
GDB (Genome Data Base)
