This week’s tip of the week introduces a thesaurus of biological names, called uBio. http://www.ubio.org/ The uBio project aims to collect and organize biological names–historical and current–and make them available for searching or for use in other tools. It also contains dozens of cool links to other tools and projects around taxonomy and biodiversity around [...]
Scrolling through some of my regular podcasts the other day I came across this tidbit about bioinformatics growing in New York (among other things, or course!): Barcoding Plant DNA (I hope the embed of the audio file works, first time I’m trying that…) It is a discussion with Dr. Damon Little, a curator of bioinformatics [...]
I keep an eye on a lot of mailing lists. Usually they are the ones for database or software resources in our field. But I also keep an eye on some funding ones. We aren’t always eligible, but it also helps us to get a sense of the directions that projects are going. Yesterday I [...]
I’ve been reading a lot more on biodiversity lately, and I was really pleased to come across the Bioversity International site to learn more about this topic. Not a standard sequence or algorithm type of bioinformatics resource, the site is a collection of biological information on a wide range of topics and database resources that [...]
Before disasters people will often scour stores to hoard food and other essentials. We are now faced with changes in our global climate that are as bad, or worse, as our earlier worst case scenarios and a species die off that is unprecedented (Nature article, subscription required): …biodiversity loss is accelerating globally. Some 12% of [...]
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