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Papers, papers, papers

Scott Edmunds - August 19, 2011

On the launch of our new website, Article Processing Charge’s, and hitting the road to get papers, papers, papers.

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Notes from an E. coli “tweenome” – lessons learned from our first data DOI.

Scott Edmunds - August 3, 2011

Notes on the Open Science sharing of the first “tweenome” – the genome of a killer E. coli outbreak and crowdsourcing on twitter.

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IBRO and CNS*2011, or happy neuroscience days

Alexandra Basford - July 31, 2011

I just got back from attending the IBRO World Congress in Florence and the CNS*2011 meeting in Stockholm. All I can say is: lucky me. Okay, clearly that’s not all I can say. They were both wonderful meetings and it was great to see so much good neuroscience going on. IBRO had quite the turnout […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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