Biology News Net - General http://www.biologynews.net/ Your source for Bioinformatics and Biotechology News! Biology Current Events on Stem cell research, Gene Synthesis, Microarray and Microfluidics research, Retrovirology, Gene therapy... by a Bioinformatics PhD student working on AIDS. Copyright 2008 Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:40:42 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.2 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss MBL develops infrastructure and portal for Encyclopedia of Life The first 30,000 pages of a massive online Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) were unveiled today as scientists assemble for the prestigious Technology, Entertainment and Design (TED) Conference in Monterey, California.

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/02/26/mbl_develops_infrastructure_and_portal_for_encyclopedia_of_life.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2008/02/26/mbl_develops_infrastructure_and_portal_for_encyclopedia_of_life.html General Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:40:42 -0500 BioMed Central announces open access publishing agreement with HHMI BioMed Central, the world’s largest publisher of open access scientific journals, and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced a membership agreement under which HHMI will pay the article processing charges for all research published by HHMI investigators in BioMed Central journals. Articles published under this agreement will be made immediately and freely available on the web in their final published form, and will be deposited in international archives including PubMed Central (PMC). The agreement between HHMI and BioMed Central takes effect for articles submitted after September 1, 2007.

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/08/20/biomed_central_announces_open_access_publishing_agreement_with_hhmi.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/08/20/biomed_central_announces_open_access_publishing_agreement_with_hhmi.html General Mon, 20 Aug 2007 23:52:49 -0500 Scuba diving Just a quick note to warn that I wont be able to update the site in the next 3 days - scuba diving course on a boat, on the Great barrier reef, no less! Were the weekend right now so not much I can post before I go off, I'll post the most relevant news of the next few days when I get back!

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/08/06/scuba_diving.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/08/06/scuba_diving.html General Mon, 06 Aug 2007 05:41:00 -0500 Back online First real vacations in three years, whats the worse that could happen? My hosting provider having trouble on the server hosting the Biology News Net, of course. The outage lasted at least for 5 days, but now were on a dedicated server and things should improve significantly - I hope it wont happen again, troubleshooting server problems on the other side of the world (australia) without a reliable internet connection isnt exactly fun!

Sorry for the trouble this outage might have caused!

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/07/31/back_online.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/07/31/back_online.html General Tue, 31 Jul 2007 23:40:17 -0500 IAS 2007 Just a quick note to say that updates on the site might be a little slower on the site for the next month or so; I'll be at the 4th IAS conference (a conference on AIDS and HIV-1) in Sydney, Australia (and for some vacation there too after that).

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/07/18/ias_2007.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/07/18/ias_2007.html General Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:02:30 -0500 EMBL expands to Australia Today, delegates representing the 19 member states of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) offered Australia associate membership in EMBL’s international community. The membership is planned to start officially in January 2008 and will initially last for seven years.

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/07/12/embl_expands_to_australia.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/07/12/embl_expands_to_australia.html General Thu, 12 Jul 2007 21:23:06 -0500 Row over study puts Korea's scientific community under scrutiny again This week's BMJ investigates a bitter row over a scientific paper that is putting Korea's scientific community under scrutiny once again.

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/04/05/row_over_study_puts_koreas_scientific_community_under_scrutiny_again.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/04/05/row_over_study_puts_koreas_scientific_community_under_scrutiny_again.html General Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:16:02 -0500 Are journal rankings distorting science? This week’s BMJ raises concerns over whether journal rankings (known as impact factors) are distorting publishing and science.

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/03/17/are_journal_rankings_distorting_science.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/03/17/are_journal_rankings_distorting_science.html General Sat, 17 Mar 2007 10:31:43 -0500 Problems on the site Sorry for the problems the site experienced tonight; it appears that spammers hammered our search function, causing the site to go down. It has been disabled until we find a suitable solution. After that, an error by a technician at our hosting company caused many errors on the site (which you might have witnessed). We apologize for the downtime; everything should be back to normal right now!

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/03/15/problems_on_the_site.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/03/15/problems_on_the_site.html General Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:14:58 -0500 Woman's Day and For Womens of Science Today is the International Women's Day and the UNESCO in association with L'Oreal awarded distinctions to five leading women researchers, one per continent - the awards identify exceptional women as role models for the generations to come.

]]> http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/03/08/womans_day_and_for_womens_of_science.html http://www.biologynews.net/archives/2007/03/08/womans_day_and_for_womens_of_science.html General Thu, 08 Mar 2007 22:38:45 -0500