I’m attending the 3rd International Biocuration Conference in Berlin, which looks like a pretty successful meeting in terms of numbers of participants. Seems like somewhere between 100 and 200 participants. It looks like the time for recognition for biocuration and curated biological resource has come. The International Society for Biocuration has been inaugurated yesterday. People [...]
Entries from April 17th, 2009
3rd International Biocuration Conference in Berlin
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture
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Cheminformatics/Metabolism PhD position at EBI
April 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Blue Obelisk, Chemoinformatics, Open Science, Publishing
The Cheminformatics and Metabolism group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, Uk, has an opening for a phd position. The EBI is one of four outstations of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and is a great place to do research in chemistry, cheminformatics and drug discovery. In all of these areas, [...]
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The Singularity is near … (still)
April 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Fun, Hot Science, Life of Chris, People, Scientific Culture
My favorite thinkers over at the Singularity Hub have posted the quarterly summary of their best news stories. Go check it out. For those of you not knowing what this is about: Read the book “The singularity is near” by Ray Kurzweil. Compelling stuff.
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