September 23, 2009
Might Google Sidewiki be the answer for scientific databases wishing to add community annotation features? In the past, I’ve presented cautionary, real-world experiments in community annotation of genomic databases. They haven’t worked. Some mistook these tales of woe to mean that I’m against the idea of community based annotation (Combat). On the contrary, I see [...]
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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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