scienceapps

Evangelos Pafilis1,3, Seán I O'Donoghue1,3, Lars J Jensen1,2,3, Heiko Horn1, Michael Kuhn1, Nigel P Brown1 & Reinhard Schneider1 European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Heidelberg, Germany. NNF Center for Protein Research, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. These authors contributed equally. e-mail: contact@reflect.ws IntroductionTo the editor: Anyone who regularly reads life science literature often comes across names of genes, proteins or small molecules that they would like to know more about. To make this process easier, we have developed a new, free service called Reflect (http://reflect.ws) that can be installed as a plug-in to web browsers, such as Firefox or Internet Explorer. Reflect tags gene, protein and small-molecule names in any web page, typically within a few seconds and without affecting document layout. - Maxine via Bookmarklet

There may also be a REST interface. If we make this then it will be build on top of the SOAP interface (i.e. all REST calls will be translated to SOAP calls). I hope that we can do this in an automated manner based on the WSDL. In any case, this implies that the REST interface will be made only after we are done with the SOAP interface. - Lars Juhl Jensen

Sharing this as it is a slightly less specialist post than some of the posts I've read about Google Wave (ie people like me can understand it). - Maxine

The enterprise version of what we should probably doing to record data analysis and data production properly - Cameron Neylon via Bookmarklet

Quote: "Last week Microsoft will start inviting users into Vine, a public-service tool that will be especially useful during disasters. In case of an emergency or everyday life, Vine will be a multi-platform, ad-free method of staying in touch with networks. Once Vine is launched it has the potential to become a very powerful communication platform. Last week I had a phone call with Tammy Savage, the GM of Microsoft’s Public Safety Initiative. Vine's primary goal is to connect you with a small group of people, reach them wherever they are, and allow you to determine what conditions are like where they are. Vine will do this by letting you connect to it as you desire. Initially that means Facebook, LinkedIn, email, SMS, and the Vine Windows client. " - Maxine via Bookmarklet

Quote (by Tony Hammond): "We're pleased to announce that Nature.com now has an OAI-PMH interface. This service implements the Protocol for Metadata Harvesting from the Open Archives Initiative. This means that the Nature.com platform can now be queried by item, by title or by date range and that structured data records will be returned. All articles from over 150 titles can be accessed and dating back to 1869 for Nature magazine." - Maxine

Quote: "The announcement, expected Monday, means developers can build services that access the photos, videos, notes and comments users upload to Facebook, with users' permission. That's a big change for the social-networking site, which has exercised tight control over the look and feel of its service and how developers can interact with it. What I cannot figure out is whether this means Facebook is going to solve its linking problem. I've complained about it before, but the big issue with Facebook, to my mind, is that it does not play well with others when it comes to linking on the open web. In fact, it's damn hard to even link *inside* Facebook, never mind sending links *from* other services (IE Twitter) into your Facebook status feed (you can't)." - Maxine via Bookmarklet

That's one of my main issues with it, too, besides the annoying interface and all that. I can't believe they'd get by without links, the most important things on the web. - Mr. Gunn

For instance, if you want to earch for the gene "alpha synuclein" using the GenBank ID CR457058. The link structure should be this one http://www.novoseek.com/AccessP... - novoseek

A new tool for managing search for academic resources. Author is looking for comments. - Cameron Neylon - Richard Akerman

Quote: "This morning marks the launch of ExecTweets, a platform my company has built working with Microsoft, its sponsor, and Twitter. I'm proud of the work here, it reflects a lot of thinking about how to use conversations like Twitter to fuel what I hope is a value-added experience. In this case, we're filtering for business-realated content from senior execs in various industries, like retail, healthcare, government, and more, and we've created a platform for community conversation, voting, input, and recommendations. (FM blog post here)." - Maxine via Bookmarklet

JB says: "We hope to do a lot more projects along these lines, please let me know what you think, and how we can improve them." - Maxine

It's Twitter, except with Microsoft ads and the assumption that "top business execs" have more to say of more interest, impact and importance than others. What are the odds any of those executweeters are going to respond to you? So it's broadcast, with authority attached to position and power, and ads. How very "new media". - Richard Akerman

Discussion on functionality of ClaimID - reshared to start aggregating all the openID stuff here - Cameron Neylon

Don't think so, Jan. - Maxine

Service that provides a "publication record on the web" doesn't offer OpenID but would be close to what was proposed if it did - Cameron Neylon

The main discussion on my original blog post on an OpenID based system - aggregating into one place - Cameron Neylon

Oops--here are the links http://blogs.sun.com/erwann/ http://delicious.com - Hope Leman

ResearchGATE gets a facelift - Cameron Neylon

Cameron--would you please put a Twitter button on your fascinating blog so that we can foloow you more easily and send news of posts by your around the Web? - Hope Leman

why do PR and reporter people still love putting 2.0 after everything? - Richard Akerman

because they can't count to 3.0? (ducks) - Cameron Neylon

I use Papers, but do we seriously need an iPhone app? Well, at least I don't because I don't have an iPhone. They should spend their time writing features that I do need instead, e.g. better bibtex integration, automatic metadata retrieval and content types other than just papers. - Matt Leifer

Oh definitely, there are some really great things coming in that direction! - Alexander Griekspoor

Euans blog post in response to mine and comments - Cameron Neylon

resharing to the correct place now - Cameron Neylon

Very interesting piece--will follow the Twitter updates to blog. These were good points, "...if a future employer would search pubmed for my name they will not get a list of my papers, but a list of papers by authors that have my name. Also, some of my papers mention jan.aerts@bbsrc.ac.uk as the contact email. Well: you’re out of luck, I’m afraid. That email address doesn’t exist anymore because I changed jobs..." - Hope Leman

Piece on comcast talk about experiment with openid - Cameron Neylon

combining OAuth and OpenID in a way that works the Google Data blog entry - Cameron Neylon