Category Archives: Web as platform
Web as platform: Chemvendor grows up and becomes Chemcaster
Rich Apodaca is one of my favorite bloggers out there. His blog covers topics of interest at a number of levels, from cheminformatics to Ruby on Rails to we services. He also happens to be the found of Metamolecular which develops software and services that, in the words of the site, brings chemistry [...]
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Web as platform: Services for protein function analysis
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Distributed; check.
Function Analysis; check.
Network; check.
That’s always a good start, but there’s more than just words to like about FuncNet. FuncNet is an open platform for prediction and comparison of protein function and, perhaps more significantly, is funded by the EMBRACE network. Why do I think that’s significant? Cause EMBRACE is [...]
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The Web as Platform: When an API makes you wistful
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This is build.kiva.org, our brand-spankin’-new destination for developers wanting to build and extend the microlending platform we’ve created at Kiva. Over the next few months we plan to shape this into a hub for builders, mashers, and other creative types looking to make a difference in the world through loans to the working poor. [...]
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Web as platform: Twittering for stocks and proteins
Image via WikipediaContinuing to clear out my inbox, aka my brain, before I shut down for the year.
The other day I was listening to Technometria, with Eric Norlin as the special guest. The episode, about The Implicit Web touched upon a lot of interesting topics. Among other things they talked about Stocktwits, which [...]
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Web as platform: Linking data. RDF stores and augmentation