From: Walter Stafford <STAFFORD@bbri.harvard.edu>
  To  : rasmb@bbri.harvard.edu
  Date: Sat, 10 May 1997 10:59:34 -0400 (EDT)

Analytical Ultracentrifuge Software Developers Forum

**************************  announcement  ******************************


           Analytical Ultracentrifuge Software Developers Forum


An email forum has been set up as a subgroup of the RASMB email forum for 
the purpose of discussing matters related to software & hardware development
for the Beckman XL-A/XL-I analytical ultracentrifuges.

Since this will be a rather technical discussion, it will not of interest 
to the many of the other RASMBers, but anybody who wants to be inloved or 
wants to just listen, should join the group.


To post messages for discussion please send them to 

		spin@bbri.harvard.edu


Please send requests for inclusion in the gruop to  

		Stafford@bbri.harvard.edu


The current topic of discussion that initiated this subgroup is
concerned with developing a binary file format. 


The main points of discussion so far have revolved around

1. speeding up the acquisition cycle time
2. reducing disk space
3. speeding up the reading of data files by analysis software
4. a user option to use either ASCII or binary as the primary file type

A second topic concerned  database formats for organizing data by run type, 
optical system etc...



-Walter Stafford

Boston Biomedical Research Insitiute
stafford@bbri.harvard.edu