francis at monod.biol.mcgill.ca (Francis Ouellette) writes:
>I totally agree with you ... and this is the selling pitch of all
>companies that sell these packages ... (do you work for any of
>them ;-)
NO. I just work for Biocenter Basel. Usual disclaimers apply.
>>If you can make sure that
>> (1) you can pay for the maintenance
>> (2) have some net expert on hand to get the workstation set up
>> (3) get ONE REASONABLE (as opposed to all PD on any server) software
>>>>that would be great. I think that a low-end Indigo, Sun or DECstation with
>>some GCG and a genome package from the PD would get you a good start
>>for about $25K. Surely beyond the $5K cited abouve but a real thing.
>>Now shop around and ask how long you can get a cpu usage with online
>>services for these $25K. Take your option.
>I fully agree again, and this is what the poeple at "YEAST CHI project" have done (except they spent a bit more on the workstation :), and is definitelly the way to go, if you can afford it, and all of the group (not just the yeast CHI people) end up winners.
I definitively think that it is worth emphasizing that this is precisely what
I was trying to say. I do NOT want to sell anybodies package, and I do not
want to discourage anyone. But I want to make them aware of the fact that
playing computers is expensive if done right. And, it pays off only then !
Regards
Reinhard
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