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Final impressions of Vienna: time to go with the (work)flow…
Scott Edmunds - July 20, 2011
So that’s ISMB over for another year. The worlds computational biologists are now sleeping off their Austrian wine and Sacher Torte hangovers on flights back home, hopefully inspired and brimming with fresh ideas for the next year. On the whole it seemed a productive and positive meeting, and whilst personal perspectives always differ depending on […]
First day of the ISMB Bio-Ontologies Meeting: useful tools in the data-deluge.
Scott Edmunds - July 15, 2011
In this era of “big-data” and supposed data-tsunamis, being able to sift through the vast swathes of information and find what you are looking will become more and more important. Key to this process will be the use of controlled vocabularies and ontologies – properly tagging and labelling the data to make it findable, and […]
GigaScience on the road…
Scott Edmunds - July 13, 2011
After the launch of the GigScience website last week, and a call for papers this week, it’s now time to start meeting and talking with potential authors. After a busy batch of conferences hosted by the BGI, including the first meeting of the Earth Microbiome Project (see the slides and video of our talk) and […]
GigaScience, Giga-database and now GigaBlog: new resources for the big-data community
Gabriella Anderson - July 6, 2011
As biological data is now produced faster than it can easily be handled and stored, the dissemination of this data has become a major bottleneck. GigaScience: a new type of journal from BioMed Central and BGI — no stranger to these issues being the world’s largest Genomics center — starts taking submissions today with the […]