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A nice article by Philip E. Bourne and Iddo Friedberg [ [http://compbiol.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.0020121 ].

I just saw this on Konrad Foerstner's projects page (Konrad is one of the organizers of the online PhD symposium mentioned bellow): a series of talks on Web 2.0 and its impact on science. I haven't had the opportunity to watch the videos yet, but the topics look good. They cover RSS, bookmarks and tags, even collaborative online editing of papers using wikis. Could be a great reference to point your clueless colleagues to.

Update 2: Bio:Blogs #6 is now live.

Update 1: this is the final final call for Bio::Blogs, all you need to do is send an email with a link to a great bioinformatics related blog post to bioblogs at gmail dot com. You can even send links from your own blog, more publicity never hurts!

Final reminder: the Bio::Blogs deadline is this Friday. Theoretically submissions should be in before Friday, but I'm not going to be too strict as I don't think I'll get around to posting until the weekend. This month's edition is the "conference edition", I've had two conference reports sent in so far, and I have links to a few more. They don't have to be recent, just posted on a blog and related to bioinformatics. Of course, all good bioinformatics links are welcome, so send 'em in (bioblogs at gmail dot com).

Bill Hooker, fellow Australian, scientist and science blogger (the blog is called "open reading frame", dead give away) has an excellent two part series (part one, part two) at 3QuarksDaily on the future of science . Bill is advocating 'open science' as the future of science, this topic has been brought up on nodalpoint numerous times, so no arguments there. The two posts include plenty of links and are definitely worth a read, even if you know the topic well.

The first EMBL online PhD symposium is now open for registration (Via Neil, via Pedro, Stew and , Roland, who is also a speaker). This is a great idea, and I for one will try to participate if possible (it starts in the evening here in Hsin Chu).

...Now with added meaning!

This amusing picture-parody of the semantic web is worth a thousand words, was conceived of by Mark Butler for a presentation [1] and drawn by Rachel Murphy of Rude Girl Designs.

Should I Stay Or Should I Go?

Sometimes, being a PostDoctoral researcher is a tough life. Thankfully, help is at hand in Philip Bourne and Iddo Friedberg's guide Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Post-Doctoral Position published in PLOS Computational Biology.

I'm still working on a write-up of my Euro tour notes, but in the mean time I give you random links...

Hello.
Recently I began studying the basics of text mining (related to literature mining) for a small project in our laboratory. I would like to know if there are any good introductory resources (be either online, or books) to get a good overview of the subject in a biological perspective (because I'm a biotechnologist and I'm still new to the computational field). Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

Has it already been six months of Bio::Blogs ? Not quite, the sixth edition of Bio::Blogs will be hosted at nodalpoint. This is your half time warning, so please start sending in your submissions to bioblogs at gmail dot com, or greg dot tyrelle at gmail dot com. Thank you to Chris for hosting the last edition, which was the 'tools edition'. I'd like to make this round the 'conference edition', however all bioinformatics related submission are of course welcome. So if you've recently attended a meeting, write it up on your blog and send me the link, or any older conference write-ups you're aware of, otherwise just send in the good stuff.