Monthly Archives: January 2007

The Franklin award for open access – 2007 nominees

Bio-IT World is reporting that the Bioinformatics Organization has nominated Sean Eddy, Robert Gentleman, Don Gilbert and Steven Salzberg for the 2007 Benjamin Franklin award. The award is a “humanitarian/bioethics award presented annually by this organization to an individual who has, in his or her practice, promoted free and open access to the materials [...]
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Jim Gray is missing

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post inspired by a bunch of Jim Gray presentations. At the time, I had contacted Jim and requested permission to use one or more figures from his slides. He was prompt and friendly, and I had been hoping to run into him in person some [...]
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Things I Noticed #21

The latest version of the Weekly Roundup starts with news about an assault against open science Are battle lines being drawn? The science blogosphere is all abuzz about a report at News@Nature (sub required) that some traditional scientific publishers have hired a well known PR firm in what appears to be a media blitz against open access. [...]
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Bio::Blogs #7 is due in a few days

Read the original post at Public Rambling
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Feeds

Someone (I believe it was Rick) just used the MeeboMe widget to inform me that there was a problem with my feed. Apparently the title had disappeared of the feed. That made me check a couple of things and I found out that the feedburner plugin was disabled (must have happened when I [...]
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