New knowledgebase launched in Structural Biology
Yesterday we launched a new structural biology website, the PSI-Nature Structural Genomics Knowledgebase. Read more
Yesterday we launched a new structural biology website, the PSI-Nature Structural Genomics Knowledgebase. Read more
This week’s issue of Nature is a special on Big Data. It has a good (we think) collection of pieces about the excitement, opportunities and challenges of massive data growth. Read more
A couple of days ago Barend Mons and colleagues published an article in Genome Biology about WikiProteins – a new way of asking a “million minds to annotate a million [biomedical] concepts”. On the face of it, it seems like an fine idea: combine text mining and other database trawling (Medline, GO, UniProt and others), distill some concept maps from that (Knowlets, they call them) and invite scientists to chip in via a wiki. Read more
Title says it all really. This is a great boon for us, sort of the equivalent of the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar, so kudos to anyone and everyone at Nature.com who has helped us to achieve this recognition. It’s a popular vote, so VOTE NOW! You have to register first though. Read more
Very often, figuring out how to use an online database means battling it out with the user interface mano e mano, trying the help manual or (best of all) finding somebody who knows it all already. Read more
There’s a great discussion going on at Nature Network about the opportunities and risks of brain-enhancing drugs. And Nick Bostrom from the University of Oxford has a great “PODium” opinion piece in the latest Nature Podcast (audio|transcript). Do listen to the whole show, but if you’re in a hurry to hear Nick’s bit then skip to 19’30”. Read more
We had lunch yesterday with Egon Willighagen who in his spare time runs the Chemical Blog space, now situated at https://cb.openmolecules.net/ (running on postgenomic code). Read more
In a wonderful marriage of antiquity and technology, Nature has just released a special website about its history. Browse the timeline and watch the videos, then nominate and vote for your favourite Nature papers. (Mine are here and here, but I urge you to vote for this one. Read more
Peter Brantley wrote to us to let us know that the National Sciecne Foundation office of Cyberinfrastructure has just released a call for proposals for the creation of A Sustainable Digital Data Preservation and Access Network (DataNet). This is a 100 million dollar round of funding to be distributed to five groups over five years, with a possible extension to the funding following on from that. You can view the proposal here. Peter has created a DataNet group on Nature Network to “to share interests, proffered expertise, desires to collaborate, and solicit Q&A regarding the recent NSF solicitation.” … Read more