In a previous post I wrote about how Google Docs (and the Research plugin) can be used for writing journal articles. There were two shortcomings to this approach: Google Docs doesn’t support end notes (only footnotes) The Research plugin supports only a limited number of citation styles Recently, I was contacted by the folks at […]
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Recently, I was working on a UniProt parser for the next BioGroovy release, and while looking through the UniProt schema I started to wonder why the elements in schemas weren’t annotated with references to ontologies? Let’s take a look at an example. A typical UniProt record contains many “reference” elements like this: <reference key=”2″> <citation
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The advent of cloud-based office suites like Google Docs, have changed the collaborative process of research writing. Google Docs allows you and your collaborators to work on the same document at the same time. No more sending versions of a document back and forth as each person works on a particular section, followed by a
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In my previous post I talked about the impending shutdown of Google Reader in July and I listed some of the features that I’d like to see in a Google Reader replacement. One of the major missing pieces in the puzzle has always been getting articles that you’ve saved into a blog posting. WordPress has
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News In this weeks news: “Pancreas In A Dish” Will Show How Pancreatic Cancer Forms A tiny, living 3-D organ model of pancreatic ducts has been created by researchers in Toronto to help them understand pancreatic cancer, which is one of the deadliest yet least understood of all cancers. This new model could lead to
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News In this weeks news: AACR: New Treatments Studied for Pancreatic Cancer –Doctors Lounge Targeting the hedgehog signaling pathway with a smoothened antagonist, GDC-0449, in combination with gemcitabine achieves partial response in some metastatic pancreatic cancer patients; and targeted depletion of the multi-functional cell membrane protein RLIP76 can cause pancreatic cancer tumors in mice to
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This week’s collection of news and journal articles include a number of announcements made at the recent AACR meeting in Chicago. News In this weeks news: Whole genome sequencing not informative for all, Johns Hopkins study shows | e! Science News With sharp declines in the cost of whole genome sequencing, the day of accurately
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The week American Association of Cancer Research (AACR) kicks off its annual meeting in Chicago, and we’ll be bringing you the latest announcements. News In this weeks news: Health News – Metformin May Improve Pancreatic Cancer Prognosis in Patients With Diabetes Medical Xpress: The protein survivin could be a useful biomarker for pancreatic cancer Clovis
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News In this weeks news: Threshold’s phase 2b trial of TH-302 in patients with pancreatic cancer meets primary endpoint Biotechnology company Threshold Pharmaceuticals, Inc. announced that its 214 patient randomized controlled phase 2b clinical trial evaluating the efficacy and safety of two doses of the investigational agent TH-302 in combination with gemcitabine compared to gemcitabine
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When Gleevec, the very first targeted therapeutic came out, there was a mad rush in the pharmaceutical industry to mine the genome for potential “magic bullet” targets. In Gleevec’s case, it was able to inhibit the BCR-ABL fusion kinase, and turn a deadly disease into a manageable chronic condition. But with a disease as complex
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