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 [...]
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 [...]
Tomorrow I’m giving a London BioGeeks talk about Solr, the Lucene-based search engine we’re using at CATH, and soon Smesh too.
The slides are available here (PDF, 500KB).
If you’re in London, come along, everyone’s welcome. Details here. We also have Manuel Corpas on KaryoDAS, and Phil Dawes on Git. And beer afterwards.
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 [...]
Semantic 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 [...]
Abishek Tiwari has put together a nice annotated list — thanks
Also tagged bloggingMichael Barton at Bioinformatics Zen recently posted an interesting article entitled “why write good software“. He makes an important point, but I think he underplays the importance of testing somewhat.
I used to code (as a lot of bioinformatics people do) like this: write a huge pile of code, run it, see if it works. If [...]
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