New Communication Channels in Biology is the title of a workshop that takes place next week, on 26 and 27 June, at the University of California, San Diego. Hilary Spencer of Nature Precedings will be giving a talk, as well as Moshe Pritsker of JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) and many others. The agenda can be viewed here. The workshop is open to the public and is free, although prior registration is required.

From the programme: “The workshop will focus on the range of emerging approaches within e-science, community engagement in dialogue knowledge input/review or assessment, science blogs, and authenticated wiki-like research discussions and analysis, as well as the potential to formalize such community level contributions. These new approaches to communication are becoming important for biology as biological scientists attempt to address the inherent complexity of life, manage both high information content and high throughput data streams, and employ the opportunities emerging from advances in e-communication/networking and information technology.”