From the registration site: The ATCG Meeting entitled “Trust It or Trash It?” Creating & Assessing Genetic Health Information will be held on Tuesday, September 22, 2009. This meeting will bring together individuals involved with conveying complex information to different types of audiences. We hope to engage the audience in discussing issues around defining information quality, choosing content [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Web 2.0'
Learning how to teach genomics to health care professionals: the ATCG and NCHPEG meetings
September 20th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
Tags:communication, education, genetic, Genetic Alliance, genomics, NHGRI, Web 2.0
Great Tweets of Science – PhD comics
July 14th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
This is awesome! My favorite tweet has to be “I’m on a boat! I’m on a boat! check out thz crazy turtles, yoooo http://twitpic.com/abfze” although it is funny to see watson@crick tweeting “it’s a double helix! sck it, @pauling!!!!” Poor Linus.
Tags:communication, funny, Web 2.0
BioCatalogue
July 2nd, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
BioCatalogue is a new online biological resource collection. BioCatalogue was officially released yesterday at ISMB 2009 ( See Professor Goble’s slides: bioit09-biocatalogue-goble.ppt). There are over 1,000 different resources contained in the catalog. The strength and usefulness of this resource to a broad research community will be determined by how many resources eventually make it into the database. For comparison, [...]
Tags:bioinformatics, database, EBI, helpful, informatics, Information, research, resources, Web 2.0
Blogging and Twittering at scientific meetings
June 4th, 2009 by Kristi · No Comments
OK – quick post before I go home – take a look at this message that came in today via genomeweb‘s The Daily Scan: Conferences, Blogging, and Media June 04, 2009 Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory is amending its meetings policy so that all participants who plan on blogging and tweeting adhere to the rules sets [...]
Tags:communication, database, science, social networking, Web 2.0
Journal impact and alternative metrics
April 28th, 2009 by Kristi · 2 Comments
A blog post yesterday at ouroboros offers an interesting discussion about journal impact – and the issues that come into play when assessing such a subjective concept. The author mentions the usual concepts which swirl around these types of issues (such as impact factor) but points out that open access is not readily assessed in [...]
Tags:academia, communication, journal, open access, Web 2.0
