Re: a moan!

Charlotte Bolton (C.Bolton@har.mrc.ac.uk)
Thu, 8 Jan 1998 16:54:11 +0000

> A couple of problems with section4; first the cell biology background at umn
> and the Manchester mirror site peters out after the first few sections.
> This is something like a lecturer turning up with only half a
> lecture's worth of notes or slides!

> A second complaint: in the section on the Trp Operon in regulation of
> transcription (prokaryotes) one of the pdb files could not be found-
> the first one (without trp) when I tried it today. Will try again soon
> in case it was just a glitch here, but the other was o.k.
> Otherwise no complaints except it is hard to find time to do all this
> having got behind over the holiday period! Happy New Year to all!
>
>
>
> Judy Hardy

> I agree with Judy, the cell biology section at umn was really not
> ready for learning this topic from. I feel more confused than
> informed, can you recommend a reference where this topic is
> fully covered?
> Thanks
> Tracy

Sorry to harp on about the same topic, but I (as a theoretical
chemist who did her biology at school back in 1985!) am finding it
difficult to grasp some of these cell biology concepts, not helped by
the rather 'bitty' nature of Section 4. The fact that some of the
links and diagrams are either very old or poorly maintained and
therefore unavailable makes the task harder. Perhaps some sort of
unifying overview page(s) with links to the (e.g.) MIT pages would be
more helpful? Of course, it is possible to get the information from
textbooks but that seems to defeat the purpose of the PPS course!

Charlotte.

Dr. C.E. Bolton
MRC Radiation & Genome Stability Unit
Harwell
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