bioinformatics

The Worm Breeder’s Gazette: now accepting online submissions!

October 26, 2010

Last year I wrote about the return of an open access scientific newsletter (see: “An early model for open access returns: say hello to the new Worm Breeder’s Gazette“.) Today I’m happy to announce that we’ve enhanced the Gazette with online submission of articles! You must first register as a contributor before submitting an article [...]

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Meetings: 2010 International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

October 24, 2009

ACM International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology August 2-4th, 2010 Niagara Falls, New York, USA ACM is pleased to announce that it has taken over sponsorship of the former International Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, Systems Biology, and Intelligent Computing (IJCBS), and will be holding the newly renamed International Conference On Bioinformatics and Computational Biology [...]

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2009.10.16: This Week In Genomics and Bioinformatics

October 17, 2009

This Week in Genomics and Bioinformatics is a weekly snapshot of select developments, interesting tweets, and influential blog posts and literature. Dispatches Sage Bioinformatics receives an infusion of Cash The not-for-profit Sage Bioinformatics receives a large donation, helping their mission to develop open access systems level tools and databases. Lee Hood et al. launch Integrated [...]

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Bioinformatics is dead! Long live bioinformatics!

June 12, 2008

A few years ago, my boss Lincoln Stein prognosticated the end of bioinformatics. According to Google Trends he just might be onto something. Searches for bioinformatics have dropped in half in the past four years. C’est incroyable! Not surprisingly, the top-ten sites for searches for bioinformatics are all in India. Gory details available by searching [...]

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