... taking place on Sat, January 19, 2008, and they have a wiki. It seems from the schedule, that the first day is a hands-on tutorial on blogging, while the second has more broad discussions on ethics (intellectual property?) of scientific blogging, how it can contribute to the advancement of 3rd world countries etc.
Also following a link from the conference's website, I found this book with the best science blog writings in 2006....
I've been trying to come up with a nice way to mashup and process RSS feeds, mostly for the reason to be able to track articles from Journals that publish content that interests me. The best solution seems to be the workflows that can be constructed at Yahoo Pipes.
There was this article at BioIT-World this week about a Malaysian company named Synamatix
...Synamatix’s approach is to find patterns in sequence data and identify relationships between the patterns. This information is used to infer the function and significance of various patterns.... automatically learns and identifies similar patterns from raw data sets and stores each unique pattern only once. This helps deal with scaling (less data needs to be stored) and computational speed.
For those of you interested in data analysis (in and out of databases), you can read the company's white papers where you might get a hint of what or how they did it...
How the WSDL interface offered by a web service, will also help bridging the gap between CS and LifeSci,,, or otherwise between the IT-savvy biologists (aka bioinformaticians) and regular biologists.
You can get it at : BioIT - inside the box ...
If I am not mistaken, that something that's been going in the IT industry for some years now (SOA et similar stuff), for helping the expert and non-expert talking to each other.
