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Cheminformatics 2.0

Some brief notes on and links to presentations from the MCISB / NaCTeM workshop on Chemical Informatics and Data-driven Science, held at the MIB in Manchester, 4th March 2008. Douglas Kell: overview of...

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How to spend a £400 million Science budget

A thought experiment with lots of money The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is the United Kingdom’s funding agency for academic research and training in the non-clinical...

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Who funds Science in Britain?

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is full of scientists. All kinds of scientists working in biology, chemistry and physics, as well as plenty of mathematicians, engineers and...

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If Science was an Olympic Sport…

A fictional scene from the future: The Olympic games, London 2012. A new candidate sport is on trial, joining skateboarding, rugby and golf at their debut Olympic games. It is challenging discipline...

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BBSRC UK Roadshow, Autumn 2008

The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) is on the road this autumn in London, Manchester, Bristol, Glasgow and Cambridge. Potential applicants, grant holders and any other...

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Blogging Professors: Douglas Kell at the BBSRC

To add to the growing list of big boffins with blogs, Professor Douglas Kell has launched his BBSRC hosted blog. So has blogging finally gone from an innovative underground movement to grown-up...

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Upcoming Gig: Science Foo Camp (scifoo) 2009

In my inbox this morning, an intriguing email from Timo Hannay, Tim O’Reilly and Chris DiBona: Duncan, We’d like to invite you to join us for Science Foo Camp (or “Sci Foo”), a unique, invitation-only...

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Science Foo Camp 2009: Scifoo Day Two

The fourth International Science Foo Camp (scifoo) 2009 has just concluded. Here are some very brief and incomplete notes and links from some of the sessions on the second day (Saturday), see the...

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The Semantic Biochemical Journal experiment

There is an interesting review [1] (and special issue) in the Biochemical Journal today, published by Portland Press Ltd. It provides (quote) “a whirlwind tour of recent projects to transform scholarly...

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What is the collective noun for a group of Systems Biologists?

According to Arthur Lander, “hairball” networks like the one of human proteins above, are the new icon of biology, taking over from the famous double-helix. Image originally published in BMC Biology...

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