Monthly Archives: May 2007

Big things come in small packages

I fly a lot, and what do I miss most on a long flight? Access to my feed reader. Well that just changed. I can’t wait to fly to Indianapolis this weekend with a working offline feed reader, thanks to Google Gears Further reading: Google blog Technorati Tags: Google, Google Gears, Offline, RSS
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When is web 2.0 really that?

Interesting article in Bio-IT World on some of the impact that “Web 2.0″ applications can have on storage requirements at life science companies. As someone who shakes his head at how little life science companies take advantage of modern internet technologies and trends, I was a little skeptical of the premise of the article, [...]
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Open Source Strategies For Science

Found a couple of interesting videos at the Berkman center channel at blip.tv Click To Play Click To Play Technorati Tags: Berkman Center, Open Source, Science, Strategy
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Things I noticed #28

Issue #28 of Things I Noticed. Here you go. Evotec launches an innovation center for Fragment-based drug design Lee Hood takes the guest chair on Futures in Biotech Rick begins reviewing life science websites A cool new blog on open data and data sharing. Check it out Interesting paper on visualizing Wikipedia (via New Florence. New Renaissance.). [...]
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A thesaurus, wikis and text mining

From Bioinform (sub reqd) we learn about a proposal from Aaron Cohen and William Hersh of the Oregon Health and Science University’s Department of Medical Informatics and Clinical Epidemiology to develop a wiki-style thesaurus that would contain disease names, types, and variations. According to the scientists, the thesaurus would be based on a relational [...]
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