Re: Chemdex reconsiders...but

From: J. Paul Robinson (jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 04 1999 - 10:46:51 EST


Mark Corio's original note about chemdex sent me scurrying to their site to check it out.
My reaction was....... painful. Anyone who makes it so hard to get at 
information which is already free and available from each vendor is 
on thin ice....

What Chemdex is, is a way to find products from wnywhere and 
purchase them from one place - just like INSIGHT is for computer 
products. It remains to be seen if scientists will accept "biological 
parts" in a  similar way that the system works for computers...

They have put a rather experienced team together if you check out 
their Board of Directors.... so .....somebody thinks there's plenty of 
money in research labs....

Paul

J.Paul Robinson, Ph.D., Professor of Immunopharmacology
Director, Purdue University Cytometry Laboratories
Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907-1515
(Ph) (765) 494-0757  Fax (765) 494-0517
jpr@flowcyt.cyto.purdue.edu
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