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DSpace at Princeton University is open for business!

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Data­Space can now be used to store papers and data.  From the homepage:

“Data­Space is a dig­i­tal repos­i­tory meant for both archiv­ing and pub­licly dis­sem­i­nat­ing dig­i­tal data which are the result of research, aca­d­e­mic, or admin­is­tra­tive work per­formed by mem­bers of the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity com­mu­nity. Data­Space will pro­mote aware­ness of the data and address con­cerns for ensur­ing the long-term avail­abil­ity of data in the repository.”

There are papers from 2 groups or com­mu­ni­ties avail­able so far: 

Civil and Envi­ron­men­tal Engineering
Woodrow Wil­son School of Pub­lic and Inter­na­tional Affairs

There is a use­ful “About” page, and the “Help” page gives you the mechan­ics of run­ning searches using the Jakarta Lucerne search engine, which bears lots of sim­i­lar­i­ties to Google.

Con­tact:  Mark Ratliff, Dig­i­tal Repos­i­tory Archi­tect, Phone: (609) 258‑0228.

Complete genomes of 10 individuals to be put on Web

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 From Fierce­Biotech IT [editors@fiercebiotechit.com]

 

“Tech glit­terati strut DNA online

By George Miller Com­ment | Forward

Ten DNA-sequenced vol­un­teers are post­ing this most pri­vate infor­ma­tion online, unpro­tected. You’ll rec­og­nize some of them by rep­u­ta­tion, if not their DNA: pio­neer­ing tech­nol­o­gist Esther Dyson, and high-ranking indi­vid­u­als from the tech/biotech indus­tries and academia.

They are bar­ing all, so to speak, mainly to see what hap­pens. George Church, a geneti­cist at Har­vard Med­ical School, is behind the expo­sure. He, Dyson and eight oth­ers will post not just their DNA, but also med­ical records and descrip­tions of their phys­i­cal traits, says Forbes.

It’s an effort called the Per­sonal Genome Project, in which the vol­un­teers will relate the expe­ri­ence of hav­ing such per­sonal infor­ma­tion pub­licly avail­able. Researchers want to deter­mine the risks of DNA expo­sure, and learn how to develop soft­ware capa­ble of man­ag­ing human-scale DNA data volumes.

The ten vol­un­teers are just the begin­ning. Researchers are in the process of recruit­ing the first 10,000 vol­un­teers, on their way to 100,000 from the gen­eral public.

- read the Forbes arti­cle
- check out the project Inter­net site
- here are one volunteer’s anno­ta­tion results
- see the intro video ”

e-Science — a Research Guide from the Library of Congress

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Sci­ence Ref­er­ence Ser­vices of the Sci­ence, Tech­nol­ogy & Busi­ness Divi­sion of the Library of Con­gress, has cre­ated this research guide E-SCIENCE dated Jan­u­ary, 2009.  There are many use­ful research guides at their web­site;  they list key books, jour­nals, data­bases, tech­ni­cal reports, dis­ser­ta­tions, etc.   The series is called “Sci­ence Tracer Bul­lets Online”

The def­i­n­i­tion of “e-science” from the intro­duc­tion to the guide:

“The term e-Science refers to large scale sci­ence that is car­ried out through dis­trib­uted global col­lab­o­ra­tions enabled by the Inter­net. Typ­i­cally, such col­lab­o­ra­tive sci­en­tific enter­prises require access to very large data sets, very large scale com­put­ing resources, and high per­for­mance visu­al­iza­tion. e-Science is a dig­i­tal infra­struc­ture that allows sci­en­tists to con­duct research in new ways. Com­mon ter­mi­nol­ogy related to e-Science include cyber­in­fra­struc­ture, grids, grid com­put­ing, dis­trib­uted net­works, and high per­for­mance computing.”