Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for Bioinformatics
Here is a hand picked item, one of my favorites among the recent blogs that came across. This articles reflects and talks about many things which i have appreciated in the recent times and have blogged in the past web 2.0 .... Why should a (bioinformatics) scientist learn web development ? Up to now bioinformatics research with genomics datasets, has been happening like that: you download the data from a website of a big-iron institution ( NCBI , TAIR ), set them up locally, BLAST ‘em, MySQL’em, parse them with Perl script, and do all other sorts of un-imaginable things. Even though bioinformaticians might be un-aware of the term, part of the local processing that happens with the data is a mashup. This term translates to the combination of pieces of data from different sources, something akin to what has been happening on the web (see also Web 2.0 or programmable web ). In no way this is close to the myriad of Web 2.0 mashups that exist out there, created using APIs offered openly...