In full disclosure my better half works for a big pharma, this is not going to hold me back from writing what I am sure everyone is thinking. It saddens me as someone who worked for big pharma (until 2001) to have to write this. We are months into the rapidly escalating catastrophe that is …
Category Archive: collaborative science and computers
Aug
25
PLOS paper going viral?
There is just too much going on now with the whole Ebola virus outbreak and the ALS Ice bucket challenge to really use the word “viral”, but I will use it regardless. Last Thursday at 2pm a small editorial co-authored with Ethan Perlstein went live at PLOS Computational Biology about ten simple rules for live …
Aug
11
ACS in San Francisco..6 talks and a poster
For a few days I am in SF presenting several talks ..In all but one case I plan to post the talks.. Yesterday’s talk was on collaborations. The prior speaker did not turn up so I gave it twice. Today I gave two presentations. One on TB mimics. This work is subject to some papers …
Jun
25
Entrepreneurship, Grants and all at BIO2014
Having just returned from a 1 day trip to San Diego for the BIO2014 meeting. I was honored to be part of the session called “Mining for gold – creating business opportunities from publicly funded collaborative research”. This session was organized by Dr. Kai Torbjoern Ingemansson (Principal Scientific Officer, European Commission). I gave a talk …
Apr
14
iDrug – intelligent drug discovery
I gave a little futuristic talk the other week. I made a few edits and a few more ideas to tighten its focus. Most importantly I have changed the title and scope. I think we are approaching an era I have called iDrug or intelligent drug discovery. I hope its self explanatory. I begin by …
Apr
07
CDD community meeting presentation
Last Friday was the CDD community meeting held in San Francisco. It was a full day of presentations on many different topics ranging from collaboration, neglected disease drug discovery and beyond. It was the third community meeting I have attended and I really thought it was great for discussions and interaction between the speakers, panels …
Jan
29
Interview for Scientific Computing World
A few weeks ago before the SLAS meeting I was invited to give a phone interview with Robert Roe at Scientific Computing World. I think he has accurately captured what I said and presented at the SLAS meeting. I would recommend reading the brief article. I really hope we can inspire others to create more …
Jan
22
One day at SLAS – and the disruptive app as an ELN
So due to family travel limitations I was only at the SLAS meeting this year for a day (Monday) and I am very grateful for them waiving my registration to be there. In that time I gave the talk on mobile app workflows and presented a poster. I also attended the meeting last year, and …
Jan
10
Working at the peripheries of science
Its Friday, the first full week back at work for 2014 and I am already pondering, (well mulling really) why I still do what I do. And the constant media attention for youth and success just needles me, especially for those in science. Yes I said goodbye to 30 a longtime ago, 40 a few …
Dec
06
Beyond Grantstorming – Grant writing marathon x2
Well its been a very long few months without posting anything here (and my postings may become more sporadic than usual). Part of the reason has been an absolute overload of work. A few things have happened. A couple of grants came in at the same time and this will mean my day job will …
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