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Professor Edward A. Feigenbaum August 29, 1980

Principal Investigator

  

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Laurence H. Kedes, M.D.

Department of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Professor Kedes:

This letter is a summary of the action taken by the SUMEX-AIM Executive
Committee during its meeting on August 14, 1980, in support of your
proposed national DNA sequence analysis resource. The presentation you
and Professor Brutlag gave on the rapid growth of a user community among
molecular biologists based on the experimental availability of the MOLGEN
computer programs through the SUMEX resource is a dramatic and gratifying
demonstration of the utility of these programs and the effectiveness of

a SUMEX-like resource for facilitating communication and collaboration
among scientists.

The AIM Executive Committee has expressed strong support for your plan
to establish the proposed DNA sequence analysis resource proximate to
the existing SUMEX resource. It has approved the idea of devoting a
portion of the talents and energies of the SUMEX management and staff to
this new project subject to the conditions below. Such a cooperative
effort would be of mutual advantage in assisting your proposed resource
through sharing of administrative, system, and operational support and
being a significant demonstration of the impact of SUMEX-AIM—developed
artificial intelligence programs within the molecular genetics community.

However, as you know, the existing SUMEX-AIM resource has been overloaded
for some time and is unable to provide more than initial experimental
support for defining the needs of your community within its current
capacity. The scope of the usage you envision is far beyond what SUMEX
can provide and its more operational character is tangential to the SUMEX
mandate as a research resource for the development of new biomedical AI
applications. Thus, this endorsement is contingent upon the proposed

DNA sequence analysis resource providing the needed additional hardware
and incremental administrative, technical, and operations staff to serve
its community. These costs will be minimized by its relationship to the
existing SUMEX resource.

Very truly yours,

Cdanerk A F ces —

Edward A. Feigenbau
ce: D.L. Brutlag Principal Investigator
AIM Executive Committee SUMEX-AIM Computer Resource

Tue SUMEX AIM Project IS A SHARED RESOURCE FOR RESEARCH IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE SUPPORTED BY THE
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