The Cyberinfrastructure group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBICIG) will lead a CI‐TEAM Implementation for Biological Researchers, Educators, and Developers (CIBRED), on a two‐year (2008‐2010) effort to expand, complement, or otherwise leverage previously tested and assessed activities from the CI‐TEAM Demonstration project (2006‐2007) with a vision of developing a sustainable and scalable CI‐TEAM program for deployment nationwide. CIBRED has two interdependent goals; the first focuses on leveraging effective CI collaborations with current researchers to use and advance the CI, while the second capitalizes on the research data, context and experience for use by the educators in training the future workforce using a project‐centric bioinformatics approach to broaden participation. VBICIG has established strategic partnerships with three four‐year degree‐granting institutions, seven high schools, and several research institutions... - Liz Dorland

Using a project-centric, interdisciplinary approach, the Cyberinfrastructure group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBICIG) will lead an effort to engage and prepare current biological researchers and the future workforce for research environments where CI systems, tools, and services are utilized effectively and in a way that is expected to revolutionize the way discoveries are made. Specifically, CIBRED visualizes development of sustainable and scalable CI teaching/learning modules for deployment nationwide. - Liz Dorland

The Cyberinfrastructure group at the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute (VBICIG) will lead a CI‐TEAM Implementation for Biological Researchers, Educators, and Developers (CIBRED), on a two‐year (2008‐2010) effort to expand, complement, or otherwise leverage previously tested and assessed activities from the CI‐TEAM Demonstration project (2006‐2007) with a vision of developing a sustainable and scalable CI‐TEAM program for deployment nationwide. CIBRED has two interdependent goals; the first focuses on leveraging effective CI collaborations with current researchers to use and advance the CI, while the second capitalizes on the research data, context and experience for use by the educators in training the future workforce using a project‐centric bioinformatics approach to broaden participation. VBICIG has established strategic partnerships with three four‐year degree‐granting institutions, seven high schools, and several research institutions... - Liz Dorland

Andrea Wiggins [1,2] from Syracuse University, New York is visiting Manchester this week and will be doing a seminar on “Little e-Science“, the details of which are below. Date, time: 12 and 2pm on Thursday 18th June Location: Atlas 1&2, Kilburn building Title: Little eScience Abstract: An interdisciplinary community of researchers has started to coalesce around the study of [...]... Andrea Wiggins, James Howison, & Kevin Crowston. (2008) Social dynamics of FLOSS team communication across channels. Open Source Development, Communities and Quality. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10... Stein, L. (2008) Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: progress, visions and challenges. Nature Reviews Genetics, 9(9), 678-688. DOI: 10.1038/nrg2414

Review by Lincoln Stein. "Biology is an information-driven science. Large-scale data sets from genomics, physiology, population genetics and imaging are driving research at a dizzying rate. Simultaneously, interdisciplinary collaborations among experimental biologists, theorists, statisticians and computer scientists have become the key to making effective use of these data sets. However, too many biologists have trouble accessing and using these electronic data sets and tools effectively. A 'cyberinfrastructure' is a combination of databases, network protocols and computational services that brings people, information and computational tools together to perform science in this information-driven world. This article reviews the components of a biological cyberinfrastructure, discusses current and pending implementations, and notes the many challenges that lie ahead." - Chris Lasher

"I've been to many of the top 40 listed here. Some great natural beauty, and actually very decent infrastructure at most of them. If you travel around the globe, and see some of the world's great "wonders" and other popular tourist sites, it's amazing how disorganized and poorly managed some of the foreign sites are, to the point where public toilets are just holes dug in the ground. And then you snap back to a F*CKED UP reality when you see our budget figures. Taken from 2009 Official USA Federal Budget (whitehouse.gov/omb/budget & defenselink.mil/comptroller): Department of the Interior, National Park Service: $2.04 Billion National Science Foundation, including all research in Engineering, Biological, Computer, Social, Economic, Mathematical, Physical, Geo, Cyberinfrastructure fields: $6.85 Billion -- and then? -- Global War on Terror: $189.316 Billion Department of Defense: $515.440 Billion Bailout of Wall-Street fat cats, $1.02 Trillion thus far But that's all OK, because we're only $10" - adam from Bookmarklet

A “cyberinfrastructure” is a combination of databases, network protocols and computational services that brings people, information and computational tools together to perform science in this information-driven world. - Ognjen Strpić

Biology is an information-driven science. Large-scale data sets from genomics, physiology, population genetics and imaging are driving research at a dizzying rate. Simultaneously, interdisciplinary collaborations among experimental biologists, theorists, statisticians and computer scientists have become the key to making effective use of these data sets. However, too many biologists have trouble accessing and utilizing these electronic data sets and tools effectively. A “cyberinfrastructure” is a combination of databases, network protocols and computational services that brings people, information and computational tools together to perform science in this information-driven world. - Jeroen Van Goey

companion wiki for Stein, L. D. Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: progress, visions and challenges. Nature Rev. Genet. 9, 678-688 (2008). to list bio cyberinfrastructure stuff - Christina Pikas

Nat Rev Genet, Vol. 9, No. 9. (2008), pp. 678-688. Lincoln Stein - Simon Cockell

Refers to Friendfeed items:http://friendfeed.com/search... I love the idea of a response letter being on the wiki. That is a very interesting and open approach. And if this post publication 'peer review' gets further peer reviewed it will be even more so. Go Duncan! - Cameron Neylon from Bookmarklet

Good idea frank, I've done it now - Duncan Hull

From Euan Adie: "We're launching a new wiki experiment this afternoon, driven by staff at Nature Reviews Genetics. The September '08 issue of NRG includes a new paper from bioinformatics hero Lincoln Stein, describing the "cyberinfrastructure" of databases, protocols and services that is becoming more and more necessary for life science research as large scale datasets become common." - Duncan Hull

Hmmmm, Nature Reviews Genetics wiki is "© 2008 Nature Publishing Group " maybe this isn't such a good idea for cyberinfrastructure for biological sciences after all? - Duncan Hull

Stein, L. D. Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: progress, visions and challenges. Nature Rev. Genet. 9, 678-688 (2008). Biology is an information-driven science. Large-scale data sets from genomics, physiology, population genetics and imaging are driving research at a dizzying rate. Simultaneously, interdisciplinary collaborations among experimental biologists, theorists, statisticians and computer scientists have become the key to making effective use of these data sets. However, too many biologists have trouble accessing and utilizing these electronic data sets and tools effectively. A “cyberinfrastructure” is a combination of databases, network protocols and computational services that brings people, information and computational tools together to perform science in this information-driven world. - Maxine

See also this Nascent post by Euan, with some background: http://blogs.nature.com/wp... - Maxine

Resources for the Biological Cyberinfrastructure This is a companion wiki page for an article in Nature Reviews Genetics by Lincoln Stein - Richard Akerman

From Lincoln Stein: "Biology is an information-driven science. Large-scale data sets from genomics, physiology, population genetics and imaging are driving research at a dizzying rate. Simultaneously, interdisciplinary collaborations among experimental biologists, theorists, statisticians and computer scientists have become the key to making effective use of these data sets. However, too many biologists have trouble accessing and using these electronic data sets and tools effectively. A 'cyberinfrastructure' is a combination of databases, network protocols and computational services that brings people, information and computational tools together to perform science in this information-driven world. This article reviews the components of a biological cyberinfrastructure, discusses current and pending implementations, and notes the many challenges that lie ahead." - Duncan Hull