Category Archives: Informatics

SciLnk

Some friends of mine have been working on an interesting new startup called SciLnk. Essentially, the site is LinkedIn for life scientists. It will also allow you to browse pubmed abstracts via the network of authors. Often when you’re researching … Continue reading

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A few more thoughts on communication, tech posts to come

I discovered recently on postgenomic.com that mine is one of the wordiest life science blogs around, so I’m going to try to be a little pithier. We’ll see if I can constrain myself. In my last post I argued for … Continue reading

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The promise of bioinformatics

Now and again, you hear the concern that bioinformatics will fail to “fulfill its promise”. I find this statement to be both a bit scary and a little preposterous. Scary because the success of the field will have an effect … Continue reading

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Northwestern to host biomedical software development meeting

Good news! Northwestern University will host the second BRIITE meeting in 2006, to take place sometime around August or September of this year. We are planning on offering a second component to the meeting exclusively focused on software development issues, … Continue reading

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BRIITE 2005 La Jolla

Last month I attended the BRIITE meeting for the first time. As its website says, the meeting’s mission is to: Establish personal contacts, bringing together those responsible for research computing activities at biomedical research institutions Identify and document common problems … Continue reading

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