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Welcome to the 12th edition of Bio::Blogs, a monthly blog journal covering bioinformatic related blog posts. This month officially marks 1 full year that Bio::Blogs has been running (we skipped a month along the way). In the last couple of months Bio::Blogs has been sticking around Nodalpoint but I was hoping that other people could now give it a try at hosting this in their blogs. Also, maybe we could find a different (and easier) way of voting for blog posts to include. I was wondering if we could somehow get feeds like the stared Google reader items or link blogs or social bookmarking feeds from several different people together to come up with an automatic selection from the individual filtering done by everyone.

The PDF version of this month is a bit late so I might update this post once I get around to doing it or I might just skip it this month (depending on time availability).

Welcome to the 11th edition of Bio::Blogs, a monthly round-up of bioinformatics related blog posts (with some additional -omics and open science flavors). The PDF version for this month can be found here for offline reading. For the curious, the previous PDFs for Bio::Blogs #8,#9 and #10 have been downloaded 50, 83 and 100 times respectively. This edition has two special sections. The first one is dedicated to tips and tricks for bioinformatics and it is hosted separately in Bioinformatics Zen. Thanks to Michael Barton for having the idea and for organizing it. The second section is dedicated to personalized medicine, mostly because there were many posts about it during this last month. Both of these have separate PDF versions. The one on personalized medicine can be downloaded here. The PDF for the tips and trips section is available from Bioinformatics Zen (it looks awesome).

As we near the end of the month I will be collecting posts for Bio::Blogs #11. I am posting this reminder a little sooner than usual because this month Michael Barton from Bioinformatics Zen volunteered to edit and host a separate special section dedicated to tips for computational biologists. Anyone can participate in this section as well by sending some sentences with your own tips to him by email (mail at bioinformaticszen.com). This section will be posted on his blog and the main Bio::Blogs issue will be posted here in Nodalpoint, both on the 1st of June. Submissions for Bio::Blogs#11 can be sent to bioblogs at gmail.

Bio::Blogs: Bio::Blogs logoWelcome to the 10th edition of the Bio::Blogs, the monthly roundup of bioinformatic related blog journal. This months edition is brought to you from the CRG, Barcelona. I am here for two weeks to work under less than ideal conditions :). As before a PDF version can be found here for anyone preferring to read this offline.

In two days I will try to put together the monthly round-up of bioinformatic related blog posts here at Nodalpoint. Anybody can help by submitting links to blog posts they found interesting during the last month to bioblogs at gmail. As in the previous months I will make a an offline PDF version if the authors give permission to re-use the blog post, so please say so on the email if it is your own content. Previous editions of Bio::Blogs can be found in here.

During the last three months I have been working as a trainee at the Molecular Systems Biology journal. My contract is know finished I thought I would post about my short experience in publishing for anyone possibly interested is testing this career path. To avoid any misuse, what I am writing is solely my opinion and does not reflect any position of the journal I worked for.My main motivation to try this out was my interest in science publishing and the scientific process in general.
We are at a particular interesting stage of transition from publishing on paper to publishing on the web and most publishers are trying to find ways to best cope with the change.

So what goes on in a journal ?

I am back in Heidelberg after the weekend in the Googleplex in the Science Foo Camp. I missed the introduction to the meeting due to flight delays but you can read about it here and here. The schedule was set up on a board where anyone could write in a talk on one of the slots. There where up to 14 small and big rooms available at any time for anyone to set up a discussion.

(via Nascent) The official announcement of the upcoming Science Foo Camp is up at Nascent blog. A foo camp is a kind of self-organizing event where the program is built literally in wiki style. I don't know exactly why, but I get to go to Googleplex to hear an amazing group of people talk about their work and brainstorm some ideas that we have discussed here several times. Having seen the list of people attending and some of the expected/proposed discussions some of the things that will probably be on the agenda are unique authors IDs, open science (or science2.0), online science communities (like Synaptic Leap and OpenWetWare), data visualization and data management.

I found the prototype page of the upcoming PLoS One. It goes by the subtitle of Open Access 2.0 and according to the webpage it will try to change a lot of things about science communication.

Later this year, PLoS will launch PLoS ONE.
* A peer-reviewed publication that publishes all rigorously performed science
* A vibrant online forum that encourages scientific dialogue and debate
* A "hassle-free" process that gets your work online within weeks

(Via chem-bla-ics and Yakafon)

BioMed Central will be hosting a new journal entitled "Source Code for Biology and Medicine". According to journal description:
Source Code for Biology and Medicine aims to publish source code for distribution and use in the public domain in order to advance biological and medical research. Through this dissemination, it may be possible to shorten the time required for solving certain computational problems for which there is limited source code availability or resources.