http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/01/30/real_world_workshops_regcreative Comments for "Real-world workshops: Regcreative" en http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/01/30/real_world_workshops_regcreative#comment-3315 <p>This sounds great. The BioPerl guys used to organise "hackathons", but I guess they were restricted more to developers. It would be useful to get developers and end-users together for brainstorming workshops.</p> <br class="clear" /> Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:13:13 -0500 Neil comment 3315 at http://www.nodalpoint.org http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/01/30/real_world_workshops_regcreative I've recently been to a cool workshop called <a href="http://www.dmbr.ugent.be/bioit/contents/regcreative/index.php">"RegCreative"</a>. The idea was to mass-curate papers into a new database. There we have the usual discussion "open" (Oreganno) versus "private" (Transfac) databases and the open one is this case is still far from big enough, but that's not my main point here. I liked the workshop because we were actually spending a lot of time at the computer and reading papers. There were no big stars, impressive results, great publications and hypothesizes, mainly people that presented their own databases ("I've spent 500 hours to create my database" (flytf), "I read 120 papers) (flyreg), etc...) and then afterwards everyone would get back to their computers, trying to put in one of the papers from the big pile at the entrace. The problem of database curation became very obvious to all participants and they got more tired of reading papers with every day that passed... (Here is a <a href="http://www.dmbr.ugent.be/bioit/contents/regcreative/images/annotationroom6.jpg">picture</a> from the beginning, when people were still discussing :-) http://www.nodalpoint.org/2007/01/30/real_world_workshops_regcreative#comments Bioinformatics Conferences Data management Sequence analysis Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:47:27 -0500 maximilianh 2135 at http://www.nodalpoint.org