This month’s BioGeeks meeting at KCL is on Friday, June 18th, to coincide with the Science HackDay taking place over the weekend.
We have a special guest this month, Cameron Neylon, with an open-science-themed talk entitled “What have the public done for us?” Plus lightning talks on various subjects.
In other news, I’ve moved the blog over [...]
The May tech meet is on Thursday 20th at Imperial College.
This month’s speakers:
Catherine Canevet — Ondex: Data integration and visualisation
Christopher Barnes — ABC-SysBio: Approximate Bayesian Computation in Python with GPU support
N. Purswani, L. Tweedy, Z. Patel, C. Suriel-Melchor — DASbrick: A cloud based Rich internet application for Synthetic Biology Parts Registries
Does anyone have a link [...]
As someone who works with numbers, I’ve known for ages the electoral system in the UK is a very poor model.
The distribution of votes across the parties correlates very badly with the distribution of seats they get in return.
It’s possible, and not uncommon, for a party’s overall vote share to go down and yet its [...]
This month’s tech meet is at 6pm on 21st April at University College London.
We have talks from…
Alison Cuff, UCL
The CATH database — Structural Diversity and the Question of the Fold Continuum
Andrew Martin, UCL
SAPTF — Sequence Analysis Plugin Tool Framework
John Pinney, Imperial College
GLASS — Gene LAyout by Semantic Similarity
Followed by drinks at 7:30-ish at the College [...]
I’ll also be running an interactive workshop on FuncNet at:
The EMBRACE-ENFIN workshop on Expression, Interactions, and System Level Modeling
Helsinki, 5th-6th October 2009
Couple of upcoming events I’ll be going to…
1. Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS 2009) in Manchester next month, with a poster and abstract about FuncNet.
2. EMBL-EBI/ENFIN 2009 annual forum for small-medium enterprises (SMEs), in Vienna in September, with a half-hour talk on the same subject.
No ISMB for me this year, not economically justifiable [...]
Pub meet-up for bioinformaticians / technophile biologists at:
The Miller pub, near Guy’s Hospital (London Bridge) on Wednesday 27th May from 6pm onwards.
This first meeting will just be a social event and chance to chat other bio-geeks but if there’s enough interest then we might organise some more technical events in the future (topic suggestions welcome).
Feel [...]
Think electronica, think punk attitude…
Tagged musicSemantic Enrichment of the Scientific Literature 2009
Tue 31 Mar: “Semantic Enrichment of the literature for the benefit of all users”
(Monday’s notes are here)
Missed the early morning session. I don’t work in pharma any more so it didn’t seem worth a 5:45am wake-up (unhelpful train times). Although apparently Eric Neumann’s talk on linked data was good [...]
Semantic Enrichment of the Scientific Literature 2009
Monday 30 Mar: “Reliable factual data from the literature based on ontological resources”
Highlight of the morning session was Junichi Tsujii’s demo of the PathText system, which integrates manually-curated pathway information in CellDesigner or SBML format with text-mined relationships, and lets you browse the pathway maps and drill through to [...]
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