Commissioning Bioinformatics Protocols: Where do I begin?
Bronwen Dekker
Tuesday, 16 October 2007 15:33 UTC
As most of you know, I work for Nature Protocols and my research background, while quite varied, does not include Bioinformatics. As I am learning about it, I am overwhelmed by the extent of this subject and the number of open-access computer programs available.
We are interested in commissioning more bioinformatics protocols and at the moment my plan is to work through the methods sections of the “Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics” papers in Journal of Biological Chemistry (e.g.) to generate a list of resources that people are using.*This of course might not be the best approach, so I was wondering if any of you had ideas:
(1) Of how I should go about finding methods that people are going to want protocols for.(2) Regarding specific methods that should be covered in our content.*
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Nature Protocols Website (Volume 2 is free at the moment)
A google document with lists of our content and ideas (in the process of being edited; absolutely don’t feel that you have to read it to answer the questions!!)
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In fact, the important resources of bioinformatics is informatics technology, such as database tech, data miner,matrix algebra, combination mathematics, and so on. Even though you are bravely to learning these, you maybe can’t apply new knowledge to construct new bioinformatics method. My suggestion which help you easily to find methods is to collaborate with mathematician.
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Hi,
Problem is that for almost anybody simply hinting at some bioinformatics Leatherman-like tool, be it R, bioperl or Taverna is like giving a saw, a wrench and a hammer to a guy asking how to build a dog kennel.
IMHO whats needed are recipes (how to get X out of data Y). A better version of i.e. this page:
http://openwetware.org/wiki/Wikiomics:Bioinfo_tutorial(sorry for the shameless plug)
Darek Kedra
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