The Synaptic Leap

The National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has funded two centers for conducting structural gemomics studies on Infectious disease organisms.

There are two centers, one called SSGCID (Seattle Structurals Genomics Center for Infectious Diseases) run by Seattle Biomedical Research Institue (SBRI). Another is CSGID (Center for Structural Genomics of Infectious Diseases).

Both centers are seeking target suggestions from the worldwide community. Make target requests at:

http://www.ssgcid.org/home/Community.asp

-Bartrum

We're drawing up a contract (with WHO and the ARC) to cover our new grant (and hence this site). Our business office would like to know which Creative Commons licence is most suitable. I was assuming Attribution 3.0 unported, since this allows sharing and remixing under attribution. On the face of it, a better alternative is Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, since this also requires that anyone using the research has to distribute their own work under a similar licence.

We've been successful in securing a large government grant with an open source component. The 3-year project concerns the enantioselective synthesis of PZQ for a low price, with the World Health Organisation as partner. (PDF of the Uni Sydney outcomes is here). The funding comes from the Australian Research Council (the main government funding agency in Australia). We wrote the proposal emphasising the possibilities inherent in the open source approach to doing science, and we're very pleased that this was seen as positive by an official grant-funding agency. The funding will allow us to increase our efforts on using TSL to drive our project forward much faster.

Deepak Singh has very recently started:-

Hello,

I'm quite new to the Synaptic Leap so apologies if this is already covered somewhere that I have missed.

I'm curious if any molecular entities, vaccines or biologics have already been licensed as open source through the FDA or alternative organization?

Kind regards,

Christine

Journal of Visualized Experiments (JoVE)

JoVE is an excellent peer reviewed video based open access Journal that is truly open source.

See this blog entry which includes a short trailer and various JoVE related links.

New Approach to Open Contributions Experiment at Google

Check out Google's Highly Open Participation Contest. They are trying to create an open task list approach to getting help from people who want to help but don't know quite how to get started. Drupal, the open source content management application we use here at TSL is one of the projects involved. Here's the Drupal project page for GHOP. And here's a list of open tasks for Drupal.

A couple of weeks ago, Dr Mat Todd appeared on Open Source internet radio station KFUU.fm.

The interview (MP3) has yet to be uploaded but should be in the coming weeks.

Source:-

http://www.kruufm.com/open-views-matthew-todd-synaptic-leap-7pm-tu-7am-th

Hi all,

I would like to introduce my open-source project at Stanford, GemIdent:

http://www.gemident.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GemIdent

GemIdent specializes in color image segmentation using supervised machine learning. For example, you can use it to locate and count cells in microscopic images:

GemIdent in action identifying cancer cells in a IHC-stained lymphnode image