C. Titus Brown, a bioinformatician at the University of California, Davis, participated in a January workshop at Caltech on “The Paper of the Future,” and wrote about the experience on his blog. Here, he expands on how academic publishing may change in the years to come. Read more
It’s been nearly a decade since Eric Welsh first noticed some weirdness with Microsoft Excel. A senior staff scientist in the Cancer Informatics Core at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute in Tampa, Florida, Welsh was using Microsoft’s venerable spreadsheet application to view mouse and human gene expression data, the better to sort and understand the numbers. But a quick glance revealed the import hadn’t gone exactly as planned. “Excel would screw them up every time,” he says. Read more
Today we feature Animesh Shukla, a biotechnologist from Meerut Institute of Engineering and Technology in Uttar Pradesh, India who went to Carnegie Mellon University and Indiana University of Bloomington in the USA for PhD. Animesh, who works as a scientist designing ELISA assay kits for Meso Scale Diagnostics now, says planning ahead of time for a postdoctoral career could open up several doors in the land of opportunities. Read more
There has always been an emphasis on the generation of novel data in science. Being a scientist involves progressing from observation to hypothesis to experiment to output. In the past, a combination of scarce data to look at and low throughput machinery to make more has led to limited experimental outcomes. Read more
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