ORCID, Inc. (Open Researcher & Contributor ID) just released a set of guiding principles. These principles help to direct current and future efforts of the organization and “confirm [their] commitment to open access, global communication, and researcher privacy.” ORCID is an amazing collaborative effort and their work is an important contribution to the scholarly community. [...]
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ORCID Principles
December 9th, 2010 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:communication, open source, ORCID, science
apps.gov – welcome to the cloud!
September 16th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
The US government launched a new site with the aim of lowering the cost of government while driving innovation through cloud computing. Very cool! Read more: https://www.apps.gov/ Streaming at 1:00: In the Cloud U.S. Government Taps the Cloud to Fix IT Bureaucracy
Tags:cloud, communication, informatics, Information, interesting, open source, tool
Capitol Words: what is YOUR representative talking about?
September 10th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Have you ever wondered who might be talking about certain topics in Congress? In his article, “Revealed: how Congress members sound off about science,” Peter Aldhous introduces the website Capitol Words and discusses a number of interesting examples from the site. Capitol Words tracks word frequency from the Congressional Record and presents the results in [...]
Tags:communication, informatics, Information, interesting, open source, politics, science
Systems Biology
August 28th, 2009 by Kristi · 1 Comment
Babelomics A suite of interconnected tools oriented to the functional annotation of genome-scale experiments. Tutorials, documentation, FAQ are available. I just used the Rosetta ID converter (Tools >> Utilities >> ID-Converter) this morning! Biological Systems at NCBI A biosystem, or biological system, is a group of molecules that interact directly or indirectly, where the grouping [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, database, genomics, NAR, NCBI, open source, tool
Presentation slides available: 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics
April 21st, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
A few days ago, I wrote about the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics. AMIA has made the slides from the panels and paper presentations available: 2009 Summit on Translational Bioinformatics – Presentation Slides Now Available Presentation slides from the 2009 AMIA Summit on Translational Bioinformatics, held in San Francisco on March 15-17, 2009, are [...]
Tags:AMIA, bioinformatics, course, database, e-health, event, GWAS, informatics, Information, open source, research, science, software, tool, translational, tutorial
Recent articles in the New York Times
January 12th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
The New York Times is one of my favorite sources for information, science-related and otherwise (politics, politics, politics). The Science Page usually offers articles from a number of different perspectives. Right now you can head over to the science page and see a link to the article from this weekend’s NYTimes Magazine, “My Genome, My [...]
Tags:open source, science, software
Every silver lining has a cloud…
December 4th, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
I’m not one to quote a founder of a cosmetics empire often, but in this case, I think that Mary Kay Ash is on to something. Take a look at the public data that is (or will be soon) available from Amazon Web Services – very interesting! BIOLOGY Annotated Human Genome Data provided by ENSEMBL [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, informatics, Information, interesting, NCBI, open source, resources, sequence
Open Source Molecular Visualization Resources
December 3rd, 2008 by Kristi · No Comments
MolviZ.org is a resource developed by Eric Martz which compiles information on open source molecular visualization resources. Resources include tutorials, teaching resources, and links to various free visualization applications. I’ve included information about a few different applications below. Protopedia – my favorite! Proteopedia is an interactive, wiki web-resource whose pages have embedded three-dimensional structures surrounded [...]
Tags:open source, science, structure
