Two great open science resources

The Twitter + FriendFeed combination is proving to be a very useful information stream; not just from other people but as a reminder of what I thought was worth sharing. Two links from there that I think deserve wider attention:

• One Big Lab proposes that we become, well, one big lab – and has some ideas as to how that might work.
• From the OWW wiki, an excellent article on python in computational biology. This has been presented at Pycon 2008 and is also a companion article to a paper in PLoS Computational Biology. Imagine if everyone described their methods in this detail.

Deepak has some commentary on what we’re now calling the “bio-twitterverse”.

OpenWetWare

This post from the OpenWetWare blog (discovered via Pedro’s shared items) has inspired me to sign up to OWW – should have done so much earlier. Here’s my user page and the beginnings of a wiki for our lab. Read the OWW mission statement if you’re not familiar with their goals.

I think the OWW site provides an excellent space for collaborative projects. Note to self: aim to set up at least one in the next couple of months or so.