Oh, oh, while we’re on bioinformatics. My favorite thing to do to explain to people about bioinformatics is to show them kegg, the kyoto encyclopedia of genes and genomes.
Now genes code for particular proteines that act as enzymes, and these enzymes are arranged in particular pathways, like a factory production line.
The most famous pathway […]
Pat guestblogging here again….
Project Gutenberg started in 1971 as a result of the gift of a grant of a large amount of University computer time to Michael Hart. Over the years, he organised a large number of volunteers around the world to receive and digitise books that, for one reason or another, are exempt from […]
Pat Gunn here again.
Many of you have used DEC’s Babelfish software or one of the more modern tools in that genre. A semi-recent common amusement is to translate a text across several languages and then back to the original, as a variant of the old party game, telephone. Cumulative errors typically produce amusing results. This […]
Journalists often rely on various calendars for inspiration for stories and to get an idea about what’s going on.
AScribe has a calendar with recent events, anniversaries, and other mentionables.
Stay Free Magazine has a list of commercial holidays throughout the year.
Wikipedia also has some cool timeline/calendar stuff.
The Librarians’ Index to the Internet, one of my favorite metasites and an important resource for librarians and Web surfers, is facing a 50% budget cut. They have a survey to try to figure out what to do. They’ll be gathering data through Thursday, March 16.
From Question 3:
"LII is facing a 50% budget cut in […]
During Thursday’s blog meeting, one of our members gave us a tour of some cool Internet sites he’s found. Instead of rehashing them here, I’m just going to be lazy and tell you to follow the links from the Thursday Meetings at Berkman Blog.
The one particularly worth noting is Retrievr because its a(n) unique image […]
From NewspaperDirect, the subscription-based PressDisplay currently contains about 250 newspapers from 55 countries. Its content is based on images of the actual newspaper pages and allows browsing by page just as a reader would flip through a newspaper and searching.
beSpacific includes this free Wall Street Journal interview with Project Gutenberg founder Michael Hart. Project Gutenberg, now almost 35 years old, is a source of thousands of electronic books. Many are public domain works typed or scanned by volunteers.
One of my fabulous news librarian colleagues posted this resource to Newslib. Newsmap shows the popularity of news items through tree maps. The site includes news for a few countries besides America, common news categories, and different days and times.
From their about page:
"Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the […]
The Cornell Center for Materials Research hosts this service allowing people to ask scientists, well, science questions. The July 15 Internet Scout Report recommends perusing the hundreds of answered questions in the archives. The site tells who answered the question and what the person’s credentials are. The answers I read were written in a style […]