Staden Package

[Ramu Chenna]

> 
> Sending an email to george.rada at headoffice.mrc.ac.uk resulted in "Delivery
> failure". Perhaps the address does not exist anymore?
> 
> Oddmund Nordgård
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> On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, David Martin wrote:
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 the periodicity is once/year!


Ramu

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    It is not adivsable to be innocent on this day!


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> > many on this list will be users of the Staden Package. This has recently had
> > close ties with the EMBOSS project.
> >
> > It is (IMHO) extremely shortsighted of the MRC to take this approach and I
> > would urge all those of you who have benefitted from this package to at
> > least send an email to support Rodger Staden's position and argue for
> > continued support for the package.
> >
> > ..d
> >
> > --
> > David Martin PhD
> > Bioinformatics Scientific Officer
> > Post-Genomics and Molecular Interactions Centre
> > University of Dundee
> >
> > ------ Forwarded Message
> > From: Staden Package Administrator <staden-admin at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
> > Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 14:18:04 +0100 (BST)
> > To: d.m.a.martin at dundee.ac.uk
> > Subject: Devastating news
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > You are on the list of people with licences for our software. I am
> > sorry to have to inform you that the Staden Package is no longer
> > available or supported as the MRC has decided to withdraw our funding.
> >
> > Last year I submitted, to MRC, a three year grant proposal of 443k,
> > almost all of which was to pay salaries. The application gained
> > extremely positive referee reports and the MRC Molecular and Cellular
> > Medicine Board awarded it their highest banding for both past and
> > proposed work. Despite this, and with knowledge of the large number of
> > groups who are going to be badly affected, the MRC has decided not to
> > fund us. The current funding finishes at the end of April - just a few
> > weeks - and James Bonfield, Kathryn Beal, Mark Jordan and Yaping Cheng
> > will lose their jobs and receive no redundancy pay.
> >
> > Before we saw the favourable referees reports I asked MRC if, in the
> > event of our funding being cut, the package could be made Open Source
> > so that we and others could continue to develop and support it even if
> > no longer working for MRC. This seemed to us the best way of
> > safeguarding users and the careers of the group. MRC refused, saying
> > the package had potential commercial value.
> >
> > The official who phoned to tell us the funding decision said he had
> > "devastating news". For us this is certainly true. I have been working
> > on various versions of the package for over 25 years, James for 11 and
> > Kathryn for 7. It is also very frustrating as we had so much work
> > nearly ready for release.
> >
> > If this decision is going to affect the work of you and your
> > colleagues, or if you have any other comments or suggestions please
> > reply to this email and, if you think it might help, send a copy to
> > the MRC Chief Executive George Rada george.rada at headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
> >
> >
> > Rodger Staden
> >
> > --
> > Dr Rodger Staden,                     rs at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk
> > MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology,  http://www.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/pubseq/
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> > 213556
> >
> >
> > ------ End of Forwarded Message
> >
> >
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