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Publish or Perish is an interesting (and free) piece of software, that obtains citations using Google Scholar and then analyses them in various ways. In particular it makes use of h-indices, which have been proposed as a "fairer" citation metric.

I've been in correspondence with the developers over the past couple of months and they kindly let me know that a native Linux version, built using GTK+ 2.x is now available. If citation analysis is your thing, give it a try and let the authors know what you think.

In two days I will try to put together the monthly round-up of bioinformatic related blog posts here at Nodalpoint. Anybody can help by submitting links to blog posts they found interesting during the last month to bioblogs at gmail. As in the previous months I will make a an offline PDF version if the authors give permission to re-use the blog post, so please say so on the email if it is your own content. Previous editions of Bio::Blogs can be found in here.

I've just got around to trying out Slideshare and I noticed a small collection of presentations under the bioinformatics tag - including several from the "usual suspects".

A suggestion: how about when Nodalpoint users upload to Slideshare, they include "nodalpoint" as a tag? That way we get to learn more about what everyone is working on. If you have pre-made presentations that you're willing to share, it's a quick and easy way for us all to get an idea of the collective expertise here.

Science Open Access?: Screenshot of Science magazine references that are freely available text.

So is Science making some stuff open access?

Screenshot of Science magazine references that are freely available text.

Screenshot of Science magazine references that are freely available text.

Trying to generate content that would appeal to a wider range of scientists, I decided to do some email interviews with prominent scientists, in order to get their opinions on different aspects of science and research. The first interview was done with Joe Felsenstein , from the University of Washington. I would like to thank him for taking the time to answer my (sometimes) dull questions.

Here is the link to the post.

http://blindscientist.genedrift.org/2007/04/19/sciview-scientific-interv...

I would like to know if such material is OK to the front page.

Cheers

Paulo

During the last three months I have been working as a trainee at the Molecular Systems Biology journal. My contract is know finished I thought I would post about my short experience in publishing for anyone possibly interested is testing this career path. To avoid any misuse, what I am writing is solely my opinion and does not reflect any position of the journal I worked for.My main motivation to try this out was my interest in science publishing and the scientific process in general.
We are at a particular interesting stage of transition from publishing on paper to publishing on the web and most publishers are trying to find ways to best cope with the change.

So what goes on in a journal ?

Peter Murray-Rust's weblog.

What should your three main priorities be as a Scientist? Collaboration, collaboration, collaboration. Quentin Vicens and Phil Bourne have just published Ten Simple Rules for a Successful Collaboration [1] to help you do just that, as part of a continuing series [2,3,4,5].

Bio::BlogsUpdate: Pedro posts on blog round-ups (aka carnivals), morphing into blog journals.

Just in case you have been busy like me or maybe just new to Bio::Blogs, Pedro has once again done some sterling editorial work and posted the Ninth Edition of Bio::Blogs. Apart from this months edition, the are a few good comments on the last edition regarding relevance of blogs and blog carnivals to bioinformatics. I don't want to see Bio::Blogs (and all Pedro's hard work) vanish into the aether, so I'm happy to see nodalpoint become a semi-permanent host of a monthly blog round up under the Bio::Blogs banner. Any further thoughts on the future Bio::Blogs ?