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Web 2.0 in neuroscience
Timo Hannay
Friday, 04 July 2008 07:18 UTC
This isn’t new but might be of interest to people in the group. The ever excellent Noah Gray from Nature Neuroscience has written on their blog, Action Potential, about Web 2.0 in his domain. Together with the comments it stimulated, this provides a pretty good overview of the barriers to adoption.
Ironically, Noah’s post is a good example of Web 2.0 working, albeit in a discussion about Web 2.0 in science rather than about new scientific discoveries. (This brings to mind the early days of blogs, when a lot of people where blogging about blogging — except when they were blogging about blogging about blogging, as I’m doing here. ;)
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This isn’t specifically about neuroscience, but about life sciences more generally. There’s a very good Perspective in the July issue of Molecular Systems Biology 4, 201; 2008 (open access) called Life Sciences and the web: a new era for collaboration, by Jonathan A Sagotsky et al., which assesses ways in which the semantic web is being developed (funding permitting) to produce tools to validate data quality, identity, access and so on. I think it is a fascinating article, becuause it gives someone like me (a non-programmer and non-bioinformatician) a real sense of the scale of the problem; what the specific issues are about the advancement of science in a data-massive world (in these authors’ view); and what approaches are being envisaged to address them and facilitate scientific discovery, with specific projects given as examples.
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