ISMB/ECCB 2009 reports

Great to see more reports describing the use of online tools to cover scientific meetings. Here are the publications, from PLoS Computational Biology:

Live Coverage of Scientific Conferences Using Web Technologies.
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000563

Live Coverage of Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology (ISMB/ECCB) 2009.
doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000640

And here’s Ally a.k.a the robo-blogger on Social Networking and Guidelines for Life Science Conferences.

Looks like we’ve started a trend, long may it continue at future meetings.

PhosphoGRID

I no longer work on protein kinases but when I did, PhosphoGRID is the kind of database that I would have wanted to see. It features:

• A nice clean interface, with good use of Javascript
• Useful information returned from a simple search form
• Data for download in plain text format with no restrictions or requirements for registration

All it lacks is a RESTful API, but nothing is perfect :-)

Published in the little-known but often-useful journal Database:

PhosphoGRID: a database of experimentally verified in vivo protein phosphorylation sites from the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
doi:10.1093/database/bap026.