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Ten Simple Rules for Getting Involved in Your Scientific Community
posted by Adam Webb on 31 Oct 2011 - 11:40

Article in PLoS Computational Biology by Magali Michaut

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Ten Simple Rules for Getting Help from Online Scientific Communities
posted by Adam Webb on 29 Sep 2011 - 22:00

by Giovanni M. Dall'Olio, Jacopo Marino, Michael Schubert, Kevin L. Keys, Melanie I. Stefan, Colin S. Gillespie, Pierre Poulain, Khader Shameer, Robert Sugar, Brandon M. Invergo, Lars J. Jensen, Jaume Bertranpetit, Hafid Laayouni

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Peer review: Trial by Twitter
posted by Adam Webb on 19 Jan 2011 - 01:00

Blogs and tweets are ripping papers apart within days of publication, leaving researchers unsure how to react.

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Common Disease: Are Causative Alleles Common or Rare?
posted by Adam Webb on 18 Jan 2011 - 09:00

Article in PLoS Biology:

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Publish your computer code: it is good enough
posted by Adam Webb on 14 Oct 2010 - 11:52

Article in Nature:

That the code is a little raw is one of the main reasons scientists give for not sharing it with others. Yet, software in all trades is written to be good enough for the job intended. So if your code is good enough to do the job, then it is good enough to release — and releasing it will help your research and your field.
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Semantic Web, the World Cup, and the BBC
posted by Adam Webb on 14 Jul 2010 - 12:17
Here's an interesting post that's appeared on the BBC's Internet Blog exploring the use of semantic web technologies in powering their (rather substantial) World Cup site. It's a fairly technical document casually dropping the semantic web monkey's favourite buzzwords and acronyms (RDF triples, metadata, ontologies, XML, SPARQL), but it serves as an excellent and easily followed demonstration of the power semantic web technologies can provide on a large scale, highly-exposed platform.
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A Quick Guide for Developing Effective Bioinformatics Programming Skills
posted by Adam Webb on 4 Jan 2010 - 13:41

Interesting article in PLoS Computational Biology:

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Data producers deserve citation credit
posted by Adam Webb on 29 Sep 2009 - 14:26

Editorial in Nature Genetics, suggesting the use DOIs for datasets.

..data still remain someone's life work to be bartered in an economy of knowledge production. The value of research publications is currently acknowledged by citation. If this practice of citation is extended to datasets, these datasets and their producers will be properly recognized. 

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