Genomes to Systems is a biannual conference held in Manchester covering the latest post-genome developments. Here are some brief and incomplete notes on some of the speakers and topics from the third and final day of the 2008 conference.

Genomes to Systems is a biannual conference held in Manchester covering the latest post-genome developments. Here are some brief and incomplete notes on some of the speakers and topics from day two of the 2008 conference. Plenary lecture by Luis Serrano, Barcelona on Evolvability and hierarchy in rewired bacterial gene networks.

Genomes to Systems is a biannual conference held in Manchester covering the latest post-genome developments. Here are some brief and incomplete notes on some of the speakers and topics from day one of the 2008 conference.

(To be spoken in the best SoCal Valley Speak you can muster) I went down to the beach and saw Yahoo She was, like, all “semantic web” And I was, like, “whatever!” References Liam Lynch (2003) (Well this is my) United States of Whatever Yours Truly (2007) Burn, Semantic Web Burn!

Bio::Blogs is a monthly bioinformatic-related blog journal. This issue, number 19, is hosted here at O’Really? and focuses on the the fascinating relationship between Biology and Engineering. Below, for your reading pleasure, is a brief roundup of blog posts during February-ish 2008, and a few other related Bioengineering resources. How much is Biology like engineering?

I’ve often wondered how all the ridiculous fluffy Web 2.0 marketing hype (see Tim O’Reilly’s principles of Web 2.0) maps into the world of Science. In a talk yesterday, Dave DeRoure argued there is a massive gap between scientists and infrastructure on the Web of Science, most people would agree with this.

Some brief notes on and links to presentations from the MCISB / NaCTeM workshop on Chemical Informatics and Data-driven Science, held at the MIB in Manchester, 4th March 2008. Douglas Kell: overview of issues for chemical genomics and systems biology Sophia Ananiadou: Text mining and semantic markup David DeRoure, University of Southampton.

Some notes from a workshop on blog-based laboratory notebooks “LaBlogs” (Laboratory Logs / Weblogs) held at the Cosener’s House in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, hosted by Cameron Neylon, a protein biochemist based at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) and the University of Southampton.

So, no-one told you life was going to be this way Your job is a joke, you are broke, your love life is DOA.

Details of two-day conference titled “Biological Complexity: From Molecules to Systems” at University College London (UCL) in June 2008 have recently been announced. Speakers and topics are described in the link above and also by Martyn Amos on his blog.

Well it’s that time of year again. The 15th annual stamp collecting edition of the journal Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), also known as the 2008 Database issue [1], was published earlier this week.