Mendeley, the future of science publishing
I was at Next09 this week, giving a talk with Rudy de Waele on "Mobile 2.0". Next09 was a good conference, a mix of talks in German and English, cover...
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Social networking and health – notes from SXSW
I was at SXSW last week and sat in on some seminars and conversations that I found particularly intersting. One session was a "conversation," held in ...
Talk about real-time search
There’s been some buzz around the next phase of search being “real-time”. Read Write Web wrote two articles on instances where Google Search f...
Itching to mutagenize
I’ve been thinking back to my bio-tinkering days. I used to work on protease inhibitors called serpins, serine protease inhibitors. Serine proteases are e...
It’s the filtering, stupid
I’ve been struggling for a while around a very big concept – how to bring scientific publishing to the modern web world of social, collaborative cre...
At least I like some of the predictions RWW made for 2009
Yup. Yup. And yup. “One word son: filters.” 2009 Web Predictions – ReadWriteWeb. – Apps that do filtering, inferring and recommendation ...
A wander through personal genomics
So, I’ve been talking about trends in biology that I think are significant (maybe because I’ve only started following biology again in the past year...
Hm. Just noticed changes in Google Search
Hm. Just noticed changes in Google SearchOriginally uploaded by schickr When was the last time Google messed with their search page? Seems like in this past wee...
“Taste good, sequence it” and “Look cute, sequence it.”
When I first started working in science, sequencing was just beginning to be a ‘kit’ science, where anyone could buy a kit and sequence. It was long...
Random walks through synthetic biology
Synthetic biology is the design and building of novel organisms or biological systems. Sounds amazing, but we have been doing it to some degree for millenia, th...