Monthly Archives: May 2007
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
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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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