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Debugging Web Services

Fri, 2006-06-02 21:06 — Duncan

There are a growing number of biomedical services out there on Wild Wild Web for performing various computations on DNA, RNA and proteins as well as the associated scientific literature. Currently, using and debugging these services can be hard work. SOAP UI (SOAP User Interface) is newish and handy free tool to help debug services and get your in silico experiments and analyses done, hopefully more easily.

Dub Dub Dub '06

Wed, 2006-05-24 18:54 — Duncan

The 15th International World Wide Web conference is currently underway in Edinburgh, Bonny Scotland. As usual, this popular conference has some good papers, only 11%* of submissions are accepted. One particular paper caught my eye:

Structured Blogging for laboratory journals

Wed, 2006-01-11 00:24 — alf

The newest release of the Structured Blogging plugins might be of interest to anyone using Wordpress or Movable Type for keeping a digital record of their work, as it includes a template for writing reviews of journal articles. This provides a form for filling in standard fields (article and journal titles, volume, issue and page numbers, that sort of thing) and produces nicely formatted output as well as auto-generating COinS links so that anyone reading the article review can get directly to the full text of the paper.

I've been wondering how difficult it would be to prescribe a standard format for entering the methods and results of scientific experiments into a weblog...

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