... taking place on Sat, January 19, 2008, and they have a wiki. It seems from the schedule, that the first day is a hands-on tutorial on blogging, while the second has more broad discussions on ethics (intellectual property?) of scientific blogging, how it can contribute to the advancement of 3rd world countries etc.
Also following a link from the conference's website, I found this book with the best science blog writings in 2006....
There is a famous place in London town, inside Hyde Park, known as Speakers' Corner. It is a space where free speech and self-expression prevail. At Speakers' Corner, anyone can say anything they like about anything they want to anyone who cares to listen. There are some obvious parallels between blogging and Speakers' Corner as well as one rather striking difference.
As of 2007, the Internet is mostly still a wild untamed jungle. Many people have tried to chart the territory, but what should a map of the internet look like?
It seems that most bioinformatics web services use SOAP, and the extent of their documentation is the accompanying WSDL file - not very helpful for anyone who wants to use them outside a workflow-type tool like Taverna, and even then often not descriptive enough to know what should go in each field.
The Semantic Web is (quote) "a new form of Web content that is meaningful to computers". It will "unleash a revolution of new possibilities" using a magical "new" artificially intelligent technology called ontology. So says a much-cited article in Scientific American published back in May 2001. Most people who have read this article, fall into two camps: "believers" and "non-believers". Let me tell you a short story about a religious war between these two groups...
Nature is a whore. These are not my words, but the words of Kurt Cobain, lead singer of Nirvana on the song In Bloom. What, exactly, did he mean?
I recently posted some scripts on my blog (match.py a Python script that calculates the RMSD of PDB structures). It's a little esoteric, but I thought someone out there might find it useful. Here's the rub. Hours after posting it, I got a comment. When I read the comment, I was rather surprised - it was someone advertising a program that does the same thing as mine. The question I want to ask, do you think this is kosher?
After a long hiatus SciView is back with a new interview with Dr Roderic Page from the University of Glasgow. Dr Page is the current Editor in Chief of Syatematic Biology and developer of TreeView(X), the beloved phylogenetic tree visualization software. He was also the editor of the Current Protocols in Bioinformatics.
As usual here is the link.
Enjoy.
BIT’s 1st Annual World Summit of Antivirals-2008
Theme: Combating Severe Viral Infections
Time: July 20-26, 2008
Place: Kunming, China
http://www.bitlifesciences.com/wsa2008/index_en.htm
http://www.bitlifesciences.com/wsa2008
Welcome to WSA-2008
Mon dieu! Doesn't time fly? Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS) is here again, see the Call For Papers. This time, DILS will be in Evry near Paris. The conference is on June 25-27, 2008 but if you're thinking of doing a paper, you've got until February 20th 2008 to submit your paperware.
