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From: "Evans, Diane L (Rosetta)" <diane_evans -at- merck -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: It is all worth it...
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 08:24:24 -0800
>I sit in my little windowless office day by day, churning out
>documentation that may or may not ever be read. My job is very
>low-profile; I mainly produce requirements and testing documents which
>are seldom seen outside of my group, and definitely not publishable.
>
>So, in today's newspaper:
>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003365842_alzheimers08m
>.html
>
>"...The Seattle researchers screened more than 15,000 genes before
>finding the one they're pinning their hopes on: Leucine Rich Repeat
>Transmembrane 3. They used a technique that actually blocked the gene's
>activity to learn its function."
>
>Our group has built 12 applications (all feeding off of a single Oracle
>database) that help the scientists in the screening of these genes. It
>is our LIMS (Laboratory Information Management System) and other related
>tools that gives the scientist the ability to work in a high-throughput
>environment.
>
>My job has just made the world a little better. :)
>
>Diane Evans
>Requirements Analyst
>ASQ CSQE
>Rosetta Inpharmatics
>206-802-6560
>
>
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