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Nettab 2009 Day Three: Semantic Integration
A brief report (well just some scribbled notes, bullet points and links really) on the third and final day of Network Applications and Tools in Biology (NETTAB) 2009 in Catania, Sicily. There was a...
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Escape from the impact factor: The Great Escape?
Quite by chance, I stumbled on this interesting paper [1] yesterday by Philip Campbell who is the Editor-in-Chief of the scientific über-journal Nature [2]. Here is the abstract: As Editor-in-Chief of...
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Artemether: Entity of the Month
November’s entity of the month at ChEBI is the antimalarial drug Artemether. This accompanies release 62 of ChEBI, not just yet another incremental release but an increase of more than twentyfold in...
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DNA, Diversity and You at Cambridge Science Festival
As part of Cambridge Science festival last weekend, I joined a group of about 40 volunteers from The Sanger and EBI at an event “DNA, diversity and you”. This was a series of education and outreach...
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Impact Factor Boxing 2010
[This post is part of an ongoing series about impact factors. See this post for the latest impact factors published in 2012.] Roll up, roll up, ladies and gentlemen, Impact Factor Boxing is here again....
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Circular logic is the best type of logic, because it’s circular
One of the great things about logic is there are so many different flavours to choose from. If you thought that logic came in just one flavour (vanilla), then think again. Now, I Am Not A Logician, but...
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Impact Factor Boxing 2011
[This post is part of an ongoing series about impact factors. See Impact Factor Boxing 2012 for the latest figures.] Well it’s that time again. The annual sweaty fist-fight for supremacy between the...
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Anything that calls itself a Science, probably isn’t…
Science, is a big word that gets used and abused with reckless abandon. Virtually any discipline can award itself extra kudos by adding the magic S word at the end. For example, which sounds weightier,...
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How to export, delete and move your Mendeley account and library (#mendelete)
Delete. Creative Commons licensed picture by Vitor Sá – Virgu via Flickr.com News that Reed Elsevier is in talks to buy Mendeley.com will have many scientists reaching for their “delete account”...
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Metadata is after-data: not just data “about” data
Metadata gets many people hot under the collar, especially Cory Doctorow and Paul Downey. Lots of people will tell you that metadata is “data about data”. While this definition is commonly used, it...
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