Tag: collaboration

Online Scientific Python: Wakari

If you like Python, want to analyze data online, and are interested in a standardized environment that can be easily shared, read on:

Continuum Analytics is offering a new beta: Wakari. You can register to try…



The collective intelligence of world-leading neuroscientists

That’s who is credited with creating Boston-NeuroTalks (look at the bottom of their page). It turns out that Boston’s a bit of a college town, and thus it’s difficult to keep up with all of…



Viewing CAD files online

When I’m in a tight spot and don’t have CAD software handy, there are a couple of sites I use to view CAD files online.



Proto open source

Ars Technica has a short, but nice article on the US Government’s role in AT&T’s decision to release Unix to a wider audience.

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HDF5 + XML = SDCubes

A paper on data organization just came out in Nature Methods (Millard et al. 2011, commentary by Swedlow et al.). They believe, as do I, that using XML schema to organize data…



Data’s killer app

On the topic of the recent app post, I’ve been thinking about an old blog post from Peter Keane. The of his post is, “What is Data’s Killer App?” In it, he pondered the problem of data management.

After a not entirely apt analogy to HTML, Keane suggested that there is no killer app…



OpenOptogenetics

When Karl Deisseroth started publishing his work on Channelrhodopsin-2, he set up a website to share the resources, including plasmid information, protocols for expression systems, and hardware details. His site, optogenetics.org, is an excellent…



Crowdsourcing your work

Ebird is a website where bird watchers (or “birders”, in the parlance of the field) upload their observations. This project, by Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, has been a beautiful…