From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Web2.0 organization of your reference library

May 29, 2008

I’ve recently started using CiteULike. Bad name, great concept. It applies web 2.0 design patterns to management of your reference library: tags, comments, sharing, etc.
You can extract information on references from many common reference sites like PubMed and, and, erm, is there anything else? References can be exported in a number of formats [...]

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Special section on Chlamy

May 27, 2008

Vol 179 no. 1 of Genetics has a special section devoted entirely to Chlamydomonas.

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The role of social networking in biological databases

May 14, 2008

You’d have to be hiding under a rock to not know of social networking sites like FaceBook or MySpace.
But you might not be familiar with social networking tools like Ning which let anyone set up their own social network.
I’ve been thinking a lot recently about what role social networking might play in biological databases.
Can we [...]

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