Nominations for the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences
Earlier this week I recieved an email with the annual call for nominations for the Benjamin Franklin Award for Open Access in the Life Sciences. While I am in general not that fussed about the...
View ArticleWhere Do Bioinformaticians Host Their Code?
Awhile back I was piqued by a discussion on BioStar about “Where would you host your open source code repository today?“, which got me thinking about the relative merits of the different sites for...
View ArticleTop N Reasons To Do A Ph.D. or Post-Doc in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology
For the last few years I’ve given a talk to incoming Ph.D. students in Molecular Biology on why they should consider doing Computational Biology research. I’m fairly passionate about making this pitch,...
View ArticleOn the Preservation of Published Bioinformatics Code on Github
A few months back I posted a quick analysis of trends in where bioinformaticians choose to host their source code. A clear trend emerging in the bioinformatics community is to use github as the primary...
View ArticleLaunch of the PLOS Text Mining Collection
Just a quick post to announce that the PLOS Text Mining Collection is now live! This PLOS Collection arose out of a twitter conversation with Theo Bloom last year, and has come together through the...
View ArticleIncentivising open data & reproducible research through pre-publication...
Yesterday Ewan Birney posted a series of tweets expressing surprise that more people don’t take advantage of ENA’s programmatic access to submit and store next-generation sequencing (NGS) data to EBI,...
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