Category Archives: Publishing

Our publishing model encourages bad behavior

By Deepak Singh | Published: June 7, 2009
My lack of enthusiasm for the current publish or perish model is well documented. This thread from Friendfeed highlights one of the many problems with the current state of peer review and the publishing model and implications for tenure etc. Everything is interconnected, and ends up leading to a system that hurts [...]
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When Whole Genome Sequencing becomes passe

By Deepak Singh | Published: June 5, 2009
In a recent blog post at MassGenomics talking about the recently published sequence of a Korean individual, Dan Koboldt makes an interesting observation. He notes This week’s publication of the genome of a Korean individual in Genome Research marks the fifth individual whole genome sequenced with massively parallel sequencing platforms. The fact that this [...]
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Pushing the boundaries of web publishing

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 6, 2009
Image by mndoci via Flickr Commenting on journal articles and in line annotation does not seem to be working at this time, at least not as much as we would like it to. There are any number of reasons for that, but I think one is always going to be the fact that most scientific [...]
Also posted in Science, Software & Internet | 4 Comments

Microblogging finds its way into PLoS

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 29, 2009
Image by mndoci via Flickr At ScienceOnline09 we had some great sessions on Blogging without a Blog and one on Social Networks in Science. A common theme, microblogging, specifically Twitter and FriendFeed. Even a casual reader of this blog knows that I love both services and think that FriendFeed has been incredibly useful for [...]
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Searching for scientific literature

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 13, 2008
Image via WikipediaOne of those Friendfeed inspired posts. Yesterday, I asked a question on Friendfeed, which has turned into an interesting discussion. The question was simple Does the method used a solve a problem belong in the title of a paper? Isn’t it secondary to the actual result and interpretation The thread that followed, [...]
Also posted in Informatics, Search | 2 Comments

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