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April 22, 2009
The Tropical Disease Initiative has released a "kernel" for open source drug discovery. It's been published in both Nature Biotechnology (ugh, subscription required) and in PLoS Neglected and Tropical Diseases (yay, open access fulltext under CC-BY). I am not steeped...
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April 9, 2009
Michael Nielsen gets it right, again. This is what I'm on about when I talk about ontologies and object-orientation of knowledge. In science, the code is the knowledge. Unlike computer programming, the code is locked up PDF and XML formats,...
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April 7, 2009
After Science Commons hit the reddit heights earlier this year, I started talking to Alexis Ohanion about how we could start to work together. We are still scheming. But in the interim, he's launched a cool and inventive way to...
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April 6, 2009
I don't like getting into blog back and forths, but this post from the Information Research folks really deserves a reply of its own. I believe this is an honest piece of confusion, and it's likely the result of FUD...
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April 1, 2009
Big FriendFeed chatter on the interwebs yesterday about JoVE "moving" to a closed access model. This is being covered extensively on the FF conversation so I won't dredge through the points there - if you want to see the arguing...
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No, this is not an April Fool's post. I found the argument about mexican lemons at Derek Lowe's In the Pipeline (if you've not got it on your RSS aggregator, get thee behind me) and thought it was a better...
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