ISMB CollaborationFest 2025 will be a collaborative work event at which participants work together to contribute code, documentation, training materials, and challenging analysis problems and use cases. If you are interested in learning and contributing in an intensely collaborative environment, then CollaborationFest is for you. Bring your own project ideas or come ready to collaborate with others on their projects!

A good number of years ago, a colleague and I explored if we could get access to the Retraction Watch Database, but we could not afford it. We have been using data on retractions for curate our databases, like WikiPathways. A database should not contain knowledge based on (only) a retracted article. Wikidata, btw, has a small number (499) of statements supported by retracted articles.

Very few people like thinking about the fact they will die. But it can prove a substantial administrative headache to loved ones if they don’t know about all of your finances, your passwords, your emails etc. At the same time, you shouldn’t be writing down passwords in any document that could be stolen or seen; it’s bad cybersecurity practice.

Here’s a Mastodon thread from a year ago.

Today is World Pangolin Day!  To celebrate the occasion GigaScience presents a new article, adding two chromosome-scale genome sequences and in-depth genomic analyses. Pangolins are cute, but the reason why it’s important to draw regular attention to these scaly mammals is more sober: Pangolins are the most trafficked wild mammals in the world, with more than 900,000 poached in the past two decades.

Taller Informática para historia de las ciencias En unos días voy a impartir el taller de  Informática para historia de las ciencias en el que haremos una revisión exhaustiva, minuciosa, detallada y profunda de la información y la informática en la investigación sobre historia de las ciencias.Organizado por el Seminario Universitario de Historia, Filosofía y Estudios de las Ciencias y la Medicina

I have something of an ambivalent relationship with travel documentaries.  While I often enjoy them, as someone who partially specialises in media representation and has lived, worked and travelled outside my country of origin for the majority of my adult life, I frequently find myself critiquing the various portrayals.

DOI: 10.60804/6msz-1759 Views from Peter Cerda, Data Curation Specialist Peter Cerda is a Data Curation Specialist for Workflows and Big Data with the library at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He helps students and faculty deposit large, complex datasets into Deep Blue Data Repository;

I was born with brittle bones. Not metaphorically— literally. Osteogenesis imperfecta, Type III. My bones fractured under the weight of my own body. By the time I turned twelve, I’d broken every bone you could name and a few you probably couldn’t. It defined my childhood, shaping every moment of my life into a careful negotiation between risk and inevitability.

When navigating our social media platforms in the past three days, you may have noticed a blurred and colourful spot in the place of our usual logo.

Previously, in Part 1 of this tutorial, we calculated the Standardized Precipitation Index (SPI) for different time scales using the {SCI} package in R. Now, we will map the SPI values for the districts of Somalia using {sf} and {ggplot2} packages in R.