This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
I've been reading Michael Nielsen's book Reinventing Discovery, which is an awesome and inspirational book about (among other things) accelerating scientific discovery using the Internet. Highly recommended.
From my position within academia …
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This is one of a bunch of posts on what I'm calling 'w4s' -- using the Web, and principles of the Web, to improve science. The others are:
The awesomeness we're experiencing, which provides some examples of current awesomeness in this area.
The challenges ahead, which covers some of the reasons …
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This is one of a bunch of posts on science and the Web. Start here for an overview.
I don't think I can devote myself to any big projects, but I do have a bunch of ideas for relatively small projects that I think could lead to worthwhile change.
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In his paper, Reproducible Research and Cloud Computing, Bill Howe asks:
What happens if you do all your work on a virtual machine hosted in the cloud? When it came time to publish, you might make a snapshot of the VM, make it public, and cite it in your paper …read more
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An increasing number of people are asking about using our assembly approaches for things that we haven't yet written (or posted) papers about. Moreover, our assembly strategies themselves are also under constant evolution as we do more research and find ever-wider applicability of our approaches.
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Note: this post is a guest post by Rohan Maddamsetti, posted by the regular blog author, Titus Brown. Typos are Titus's fault. Flaws in logic are Rohan's ;). See the paper on arXiv [1] and the discussion on Haldane's Sieve, also.
I recently wrote a short paper explaining some interesting results …
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At BOSC 2012, we heard a report from Richard Holland on the Pistoia Alliance Sequence Squeeze competition. I'd run across this a couple of times before -- most notably in the Quip paper -- and was interested in hearing the results.
What was the problem being tackled? To quote,
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