I was playing around with Google Scholar’s new citation feature that allowed me to collect my papers in one place easily (worked pretty well, btw, save a few glitches, see below) when I noticed it missed a paper of mine from 2000: “Gene context conservation of a higher order than operons.” The abstract: Operons, co-transcribed [...]
If you go over to the OpenHelix home page, you’ll start to notice some differences. Our tutorial landing pages have an added new feature. We now have a section on each landing page that shows the most recent research in the BioMed Central journals. For example, the screenshot here is for our GeneMANIA tutorial suite. [...]
Every week we do a video tip of the week. Every week we use SciVee to upload and share that video (our account here). We now have nearly 50 tips and videos residing at SciVee. SciVee has been called the YouTube of science. Like YouTube, it allows you to upload videos, though in this case [...]
Brought to you by OpenHelix and BioMed Central . We really like the feature and idea (of course) and thought we’d pass it on. BioMed Central (BMC) is an open access publisher. BMC along with OpenHelix launched a new feature recently to give readers of BMC journals timely access to relevant genomic resource tutorials. When [...]
Found this from Wired on Friday, iPad Lets Scientists Drag, Pinch and Swipe Real Molecules . It’s an app that allows scientists to manipulate molecules with an optical tweezer using the iPad as an interface. Quite a fascinating app and the video is interesting. Got me to thinking, how is and could a tablet computer be [...]
Just a quick comment gathered from a link Mary showed me. I have had my run ins with reviewers of papers and grants. Some reviewers definitely have an agenda and, as humans, all reviews have subjective biases. I could tell you stories. But, for the most part, even given the few huge frustrations, the review [...]
The BioExtract Server is a tool that allows the researcher to search and access data, analyze that data and then store the data and create workflows from the analysis. In that respect it’s very similar to Galaxy. BioExtract was developed by two groups (Brendel and Lushbough) at Iowa State and University of South Dakota, respectively. [...]
This week’s tip is a brief introduction to Galaxy Pages. These are special pages that users can create within the Galaxy system to annotate, describe and explain various analyses done using Galaxy. The user has many abilities to link to and embed histories, workflows and datasets along with using text and images and more to [...]
Last week I attended and taught a workshop for the Moroccan American Society for Life Sciences (Biomatec-US) at their 2nd International Workshop and 9th Annual Meeting, in Ifrane Morocco. I was thoroughly impressed. Impressed with Morocco, Moroccan Scientists and Moroccan students. I had the opportunity to interact with all three. First this students. I taught [...]
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… A bit of a dust-up at ScienceBlogs as they added a corporate blog (Pepsi writing about nutrition [...]
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