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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dear Sir or Madam</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I am writing to you to make a request for you to
update and replace an out-dated link on your page:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.gramene.org/resources/">http://www.gramene.org/resources/</A>
*which we think is an excellent resource!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Although "Pedro's BioMolecular Research Tools" was
a great resource in its day, it has been largely superceded by<BR>the Molecular
Biology Network's site "MolBiol.Net" - which is available here: <A
href="http://www.bioinformatics.vg">http://www.bioinformatics.vg</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Here is a formatted link for you to
include:<BR><A TITLE="Bioinformatics Tools" HREF="<A
href='http://www.bioinformatics.vg">MolBiol.Net'>http://www.bioinformatics.vg">MolBiol.Net</A>
- Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology Software Portal</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Unlike poor old Pedro's, which has not been updated
since 1996 (a long time in a fast moving discipline like
bioinformatics),<BR>MolBiol.Net is updated weekly and regularly checked for
deadlinks. It was developed partly because during my PhD I found that most
of the links in Pedro's were already dead, and found this really
frustrating.<BR>Like Pedro's, however, MolBiol.Net is a free-to-use (no
registration needed)and hand-curated listing of free online bioinformatics tools
and other molecular biology resources.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We are a high quality site listed in Harvard's
BioLinks section (<A
href="http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/biochem.html">http://www.mcb.harvard.edu/BioLinks/biochem.html</A>)<BR>as
well as having been selected for inclusion in Current Web Contents by the
Institute for Scientific Information,<BR>and BIOME, the collection of high
quality and evaluated resources funded by JISC (UK Joint Information Systems
Committee).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you do decide to update your link, we would
appreciate an email so that we can validate it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Kind regards,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Dr Jonathan Rees</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>PS. If you have any queries about this, don't
hesistate to email me at <A
href="mailto:pedro_update@bioinformatics.vg">pedro_update@bioinformatics.vg</A></FONT></DIV>
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