A recent paper (couple weeks ago) in PLoS Biology from Hingamp et al. had me intrigued. Entitled Metagenome Annotation Using a Distributed Grid of Undergraduate Students, the lecturers put together a system to teach bioinformatics to undergraduates that uses new unannotated sequences from metagenome projects. As stated in the announcement, This method asks students to [...]
From the Boston Globe I was led to a local blogger, who brought my attention to the Nerd Girls. Apparently this is a local group of engineering students who are trying to make engineering “cool” for girls. I’m not sure I’m psyched on luring them as chemical engineers for make-up, but if that’s what gets [...]
We are here at the science blogging conference this morning. It starts in 30 minutes. I’m looking forward to attending several sessions. First one im attending is on “open science” or how the Internet has changed science. I just wrote a post about that . The next session I’m going to will be on teaching [...]
You have some non-biologist colleagues (attorney? manager? programmer?) you need to get up to speed, or you need to brush up on some concepts yourself? A good place to start is this list from John Wilkins (Evolving Thoughts). It is a list of links to blog post across the blogosphere that explain and expound on various basic [...]
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