A trip to Cambridge in June

I’m taking a trip to Cambridge between June 7th and June 12th.

A trip to London in May

I’m taking a trip to London on May 14th.
I will be at the Molecular Regulation of Cardiac Disease Symposium May 14-15 2009, London, UK. Hosted by Abcam http://www.abcam.com/index.html?pageconfig=resource&rid=11503&sc_ql=1595&intGoUser=15

A trip to Manchester in May

I’m taking a trip to Manchester between May 11th and May 13th.

PSI AnalysisXML Enters Public Comment

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The HUPO Proteomics Standards Initiative aims to develop community data standards for proteomics, that are developed, accepted and implemented by the proteomics community.  To this end,  The “AnalysisXML: exchange format for peptides and proteins identified from mass spectra” is now available for Public Comment on the PSI Web site.
The public comment period enables [...]

The OBI winter workshop 2009

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The OBI winter workshop 2009 has just been held in Vancouver. This was the first of the 2009 bi-annual face-to-face workshops concerned with the development of the ontology for biomedical investigations. The first session, on the first day, covered some administration and developmental policy issues;
Namespace –  should other communities who wish [...]

All change in 2009, no more academia

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Last week I completed what was my first week of working in academia in 2009 and also my last for the foreseeable future. I have decided to leave academia, as well as Newcastle to take a position in a Biotech company in Cambridge.
I have certainly enjoyed just over 5 years working in Newcastle [...]

Dopplr and my first trip

I have just signed up to Dopplr to track my travel and to keep a record of my trips. I am not sure how much use I will get out of it or how much of a benefit it will be, however I thought I would give it a go.
I’m taking a trip to Vancouver [...]

What is your data sharing statement?

More and more funding bodies asking to make the findings of publicly funded scientific research freely available. However typically they provide limited infrastructure or recommendations as to how this should actually happen. I was wondering what type of data sharing statement researchers are (or should) be including within their grant proposals? Below is an example [...]

Proteomics Standards Initiative recommendations

Several new standard artefacts have progressed through the public consultation process of the PSI. They are the MIAPE Column Chromatography document and the Mass Spectrometer Markup Language Specification (mzML).

First Wikipedia edit

I have just made my first edit in Wikipedia. The page in question described what now is the proliferation of life science reporting recommendations and can be found here. I added the details for the MIAPE GE recommendations and intend to add the neuroscience recommendations that I have been working on shortly.