The Collaborations Workshop gets researchers and software developers working together to solve research problems. If you’re a researcher who wants to make more of software, or a developer who wants to work
with researchers, the workshop is the perfect opportunity to meet new collaborators.
The Collaborations Workshop will be held on 21-22 March at Queen’s College, Oxford.
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Recent news
Mannie Tagarira has announced that the official BioCatalogue iPhone and iPad app is now available on the app store for free download. Accessing and sharing the BioCatalogue’s web service just got easier!
This app allows you to browse the catalogue for services, service providers, other BioCatalogue members. In addition to this, you can log [...]
Thousands of pounds are available for UK-based researchers who want to travel.
If you use software in your research and you have a good understanding of what’s happening in your field (and an idea about what will be happening soon) then the Software Sustainability Institute want to hear from you. The institute will pay researchers from [...]
The Taverna team are pleased to announce that Taverna 2.3.0 Workbench and the Command Line Tool are now available for download.
Taverna 2.3.0 includes new service types, integration with service catalogues and experimental export of provenance information. Here are a few of the new features in the Workbench:
REST service allowing you to perform GET, POST, PUT [...]
The March-April 2011 issue of Bio-IT World has an interview with Professor Goble called “Democratizing Informatics for the ‘Long Tail’ Scientist” in which she talks with Bio•IT World editor-in-chief Kevin Davies about her mission to democratize informatics for life sciences.
Panacea, the Platform for Automatic, Normalized Annotation and Cost-Effective Acquisition of Language Resources for Human Language Techniques, have released a catalogue of related services. The Panacea Catalogue uses the BioCatalogue architecture.
The recent paper Further developments towards a genome-scale metabolic model of yeast in BMC Systems Biology 2010, 4:145 by Paul Dobson et al. has been classed as Highly Accessed.
The BioCatalogue has been published in MIRIAM Resources.
The Minimal Information Requested In the Annotation of biochemical Models (MIRIAM) Standard is an effort to standardise upon the essential, minimal set of information that is sufficient to annotate a model in such a way as to enable its reuse. MIRIAM is part of the BioModels.Net initiative.
Simon Jupp from the eLico project has created a video of RightField and his extension to it called Populous. The video is available on YouTube.