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Commerce and Science

Duncan — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 08:17:27 -0500

Collaboration 2.0 then :) I was thinking more of independent Scientists, rather than commercial organisations like O'Reilly, Nature and Google. I think Ian supplied a good list, but it obviously goes on and on...

We're all different! / (i'm not) / shhh!

Ian Holmes — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 15:37:03 -0500

I'd probably go along with Neil... no "great man" histories of bioinformatics here please.... except Stew Postgenomic, Chris Mungall, Lincoln Stein, Jason Stajich... could go on forever really.

Having said that, we are currently hiring Ajax programmers for a very Web 2.0 kind of project (our genome browser wiki-thingy)... so if you feel like you could be the next pioneer of Bioinformatics 2.0, please check it out!

We're all individuals

Neil — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:36:23 -0500

You might argue that bioinformatics is a collective endeavour, built on the open-source community ethos and hence larger than any one individual.

Or you could list your favourite bioinformaticians :)

Bioinformatics.org run the Benjamin Franklin award each year - its main focus is promoting open access, but there are some "notables" in the list.

How about organisations that promote bioinformatics, e.g. O'Reilly?

People 2.0

Duncan — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 07:03:29 -0500

UK news-rag The Grauniad has a series of interviews with some of the people behind the next generation web, so-called Web 2.0. After reading these interviews, I can't help wondering, who are the equivalent pioneers in bioinformatics?