It is that time of the year when we get those automated emails telling us our abstracts have been scheduled for the next ACS in August. In addition to these I will be participating in a careers panel for undergraduates which will be interesting – hopefully to inspire the next generation that there is lots …
Category Archive: science communication
May
07
The Necessary – a provocative vision of the scientific future
I was asked by Barry Bunin a few months ago to provide a short presentation on a vision for the future of drug discovery which I finally gave this week. After thinking about this for a while and chatting with a few friends including Alex Clark, – I wondered what was necessary in the future …
Feb
18
Databases and collaboration require standards for human stem cell research
Last year my then colleague at CDD, Nadia Litterman and myself put together an article on databases and collaboration around the area of human stem cell research. This built on Nadia’s extensive experience of working with stem cells. My additions were mostly around software and collaboration. It was a fun paper to write as I …
Dec
11
R&D jobs in pharma are snow leopards – scientists must embrace social media now!
I was inspired by my friend Robert Moore to write this post. He had written back in October on how to find members of the C-suites at businesses, which are positions treasured by marketeers. He compared CEOs to snow leopards, a very rare species, that can be found if you are smart and know where …
Dec
04
Chemical probes and parallel database worlds – who wants to know? More publishing fun
This post is long and a highly detailed description of the challenges involved in getting scientific work published on one level, on another it gets to the heart of discoverability of data, data analysis and just the slog of publishing something that you hope is going to interest others in your direct field. …
Sep
09
Rethinking what I need in a journal and how I read papers
Last week I was invited at the behest of a major society (the ACS) that has lots of journals, to chat with a consultant – “The objective is to better understand the role scientific publications play in the research community.” – that piqued my interest so I agreed. The discussion happened today, and I felt like …
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
21
Anatomy of a PLOS Computational Biology Paper
I think the following is a fair representation of what kicked off the very short editorial paper published today in PLOS Computational Biology. In addition the timeline gives an idea that coming up with the manuscript was quick relative to publication but isn’t that always how it is, the idea is easy relative to getting …
Aug
15
Déjà vu – Another family affected by a rare disease trying to find a cure
During my trip to San Francisco this week I had the opportunity and honor to meet with Matt Wilsey, one of the parents of a child (Grace) with a rare disease and the President of the Grace Wilsey Foundation. The diagnosis of Grace’s NGLY1 deficiency was recently highlighted in an excellent article in the New …
Aug
14
A poster and 3 more ACS talks
Tuesday and Wednesday at the ACS were pretty full up with meetings, talks and posters. Tuesday I gave a poster entitled Progress in computational toxicology – which generally shows a pretty good agreement between different machine learning methods and various toxicity datasets. It also served to highlight a new tool we have developed with Alex …
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