| JournalFire makes it easy to share and discuss journal articles. Learn more... |
Since youre a Bitesize Bio reader, youre well aware that there is an abundance of both broad and specialized bioinformatics tools freely available for researchersif you know where and how to find them.Recently emerging is a push to combine or link some of the
http://bitesizebio.com/2009/01/26/taming-the-data-stampede-with-wikis/
Continuing with the series of posts highlighting sessions in the Program at the upcoming ScienceOnline09, here are some sessions that deal with collaboration and networking between scientists and between their data.Community intelligence applied to gene annotation:This
http://www.scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/11/scienceonline09_tapping_into_t...
"But as the influx and complexity of biological data continue to grow, so will the challenge of organizing and maintaining these databases.Fortunately, the biology community can provide an answer that will scale with the challenge: community curation." [DOI
http://miningdrugs.blogspot.com/2008/07/wikipathways-challenge-of-commun...
Across the Curious Parallel of Language and Species Evolution:In February 1837--even before he sailed on the Beagle--Charles Darwin wrote to his sister Caroline, discussing the linguist Sir John Herschel's idea that modern languages were descended from a common
http://www.scienceblogs.com/clock/2008/07/new_and_exciting_in_plos_biolo...