Computer Network To Connect Biology Teachers to Data, Each Other

By Peter West

WASHINGTON--One of the nation's leading biotechnology firms has launched a national computer network that will allow high-school-biology teachers to correspond with their colleagues and keep up with developments in the life sciences by interacting with working scientists.

Genentech Inc., a San Francisco-based pioneer in the field of recombinant DNA, announced here last week that it was launching the three-year, $10 million initiative, which it has dubbed "Access Excellence.''

As part of the project, the company will maintain a clearinghouse of scientific information for network users, staffed partly...