Every year the journal Nucleic Acids Research publishes a Database Edition that contains listings for hundreds of bioinformatics-related databases. It’s an invaluable snapshot of the current state-of-the-art databases, and it’s available free of charge under NAR’s Open Access policy. Recently, they added a Web Server edition which describes the web applications currently available. Both editions […]
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I’m sure Kipling will forgive me for hacking the title of his poem, but I’ve been having a lot of fun recently with Mendeley as part of my ongoing “Free Software for Scientists” blog series. Although Mendeley is not completely free, it’s certainly free to download and use. Mendeley has a tiered pricing plan that
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Over the past two years, the recession has had a profound impact on the pharmaceutical industry. Out of the ashes though new startup opportunities have arisen for scientists with experience in drug discovery. These startups in turn are feeding the ever-diminishing pipelines of big pharma. As with every startup company though, cashflow is always a
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Last year cloud computing has become a major topic of conversation in drug discovery companies. At the San Diego Bioinformatics Forum this year, Sandor Szalma gave a great presentation on how cloud computing was used at his company, Centocor (a division of Johnson and Johnson). Just prior to his talk, BioITWorld featured a article on
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