Bio Saga Blog - A Chronicle of Life Sciences & Informatics

The Alzheimer Research Forum ( http://www.alzforum.org ), a dynamic, biomedical Web community that is heavily used by Alzheimer researchers around the world, is preparing to migrate to a new platform that will enable it to more fully exploit social networking (" Web 2.0 ") and the Semantic Web ("Web 3.0"). Founded 13 years ago when the Web was still in its infancy, the "Alzforum" has more than 5,000 registered members and is familiar to most Alzheimer scientists in the world. Ever since launching in 1996, the Alzforum Web site has been interactive, posting researchers' comments on published papers and research news. The site has published thousands of peer commentaries and mini-reviews by leading scientists in the field, and has established itself as the "go to" Web site for anyone who wished to be up to date on Alzheimer research. Members can post commentaries on any journal article or news story, and can participate in live discussion for...

Well, the creation and use of Wikis can help scientists to lasso the stampede of new genomic and proteomic data and corral it into useful knowledge rather than just random facts and figures running wild on the open frontier of the Internet. Be part of XTractor community. XTractor the first of its kind - Literature alert service , provides manually curated & annotated sentences for the Keywords of your choice XTractor maps, extracted entities (genes, processes, drugs, diseases etc) to multiple ontologies Enables customized report generation. With XTractor the sentences are categorized into biologically significant relationships The categorized sentences could then be tagged and shared across multiple users Provides users with the ability to create his own database for a set of Key terms Users could change the Keywords of preference from time to time, with changing research needs XTractor thus proves to be a platform for getting real-time highly accurate data along with th...