Re: Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological sciences: progress, visions and challenges

Hi Duncan,

Thanks for sharing the article. It's interesting to see Wiki, Semantic 
Web, ontologies, etc are mentioned as part of the cyberinfrastructure 
(e-Science). Also, it's interesting to see scientific workflows can be 
published via Wiki (e.g., myExperiment).

Cheers,

-Kei

Duncan Hull wrote:

>
> Hello
>
> A new paper in Nature Reviews Genetics that talks about semantics in  
> various contexts in the life sciences, might be of interest to this  
> list...
>
> Stein, L. D. (2008). Towards a cyberinfrastructure for the biological  
> sciences: progress, visions and challenges. Nat Rev Genet, 9(9):678-688.
>
> http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nrg2414
>
> (Sorry, this is not generally accessible, closed-access publishing,  
> but a wiki-fied version is linked to below)
>
>
> Abstract: 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.
>
> One of the potentially interesting things about this paper is ...
>
> http://blogs.nature.com/wp/nascent/2008/08/wikiwikiwah.html
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> http://nrgwiki.nature.com/cyberinfrastructureforbiology/show/HomePage
>
> .... it is accompanied by a wiki-version which they (Nature 
> Publishing  Group) are encouraging users to contribute to.
>
> Duncan
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