Welcome to our Friday feature link dump: SNPpets. During the week we come across a lot of links and reads that we think are interesting, but don’t make it to a blog post. Here they are for your enjoyment… The America Competes Act adds over a billion dollars more funding for science than the administration asked [...]
If you use MyNCBI (which I like) and eRA Commons (got an NIH grant? Then you probably do), MyNCBI now has a handy new feature I just discovered (of course if I looked at the NCBI news last month, I’d have discovered it earlier ) and thought I’d point out. The new feature allows you [...]
So, I wrote about defunding resources and briefly mentioned a paper in Database about funding (or ‘re’funding) databases and resources. I’d like to discuss this a bit further. The paper, by Chandras et. al, discusses how databases and, to use their term, Biological Resource Centers (BRCs) are to maintain financial viability. Let me state first, [...]
I blogged recently about (de)funding databases and lo and behold, a new paper was just published in Database (which is a new journal I just blogged about earlier this year) on that very subject: Models for financial sustainability of biological databases and resources — Chandras et al. 2009 (0): bap017 — Database. I will be [...]
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