My new position at INSERM/UMR915

I'm pleased to announce that I've started a new position as a postdoc in Nantes/France at INSERM/U915 , the Thorax Institute for 3 years. The Institute is face up to the Loire and works in close collaboration with the neighboring Hotel-Dieu Hospital.

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My team is led by Dr Richard Redon who worked at the Sanger institute on the Copy Number Variations . I'll be part of a project studing the genetics of the Brugada Syndrome using NGS. I'm just starting on this technology so I'm currently learning how to use all those new tools such as R, MAQ, SAMTOOLS , BWA , etc.... biostar.stackexchange.com has been a useful source of information here.

I applied for this position a few days before leaving to Biohackathon 2010 and I started to work in the lab on April 1st. I've been said that my professional network has been of help to get this job, especially Jan Aerts (my new best friend ! ;-) ) (thanks Jan !) who worked with Dr Redon at the Sanger Insitute.

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More to come... ! :-)

That's it

Pierre

Thomson scientific launches www.researcherid.com

http://www.researcherid.com

Thomson scientific launches researcher id.com to associate a researcher with their published works:

Unique Identifier Ensures An Accurate Record Of A Researcher’s Output And Attribution and Builds a World-class Author Community

Researcher ID is a global, multi-disciplinary scholarly research community. Each researcher listed is assigned a unique identifier, to aid in solving the common problem of author misidentification. Search the registry to find citations, collaborators, and more.

see also: http://scientific.thomson.com/press/2008/8429910/

Pierre

Nature Scintilla

just like Deepak, I've received an invitation from Euan Adie (thanks Euan) to join the new service from Nature http://scintilla.nature.com/.

Scintilla collects data from hundreds of news outlets, scientific blogs, journals and databases and then makes it easy for you to organize, share and discover exactly the type of information that you're interested in.

For example, you can keep track of life science podcasts, or the latest papers on schizophrenia, DNA methylation or immunology. Interested in physics blogs? Scintilla can help.

Euan is already the author of www.postgenomic.com and the two tools seem to have an identical function at first glance. This also reminds me Aggademia, a tool created and tested by Alf Eaton a year ago.

I just had on overview of this tool but I already I found it interesting to add a pubmed query in my collection of sources. The service is distinct from Connotea and network.nature.com but with those three tools you can create a group, send some invitations (people around me are annoyed with all my invitations) and I hope all of this will be merged in the future.

Shall I use this tool ? I don't know. I already use google-reader , technorati , etc.. to handles my resources, just tell me why I should change.

Science Magazine ? Science Magazine ? Where are you ?


Pierre

Tips: Sending Batch Invitations to Nature-Network.

A few minutes ago, I was looking for an quick method to send batch invitations to join Nature Network to my colleagues. I found a solution using the cURL utility.

1. Open firefox



2. log in to Nature Network



3. the site stores a cookie called '_session_id' on your browser. Open your Cookie Panel: Tools -> Options -> Privacy -> Cookies". Note the value of the cookie _session_id associated to the site network.nature.com



4. use cURL to send the form.
   

   
    curl -L -b '_session_id=THE_VALUE_OF_YOUR_COOKIE' -d 'referral[name]=Name' -d 'referral[email][email protected]' -d 'referral[message]=this is an invitation to another social network'  -d 'commit=send'  'http://network.nature.com/referrals/create?locality='
   

   
   
   the option -L is used to follow any http redirection, -b set a cookie, -d set a key/value from the original html form. You can automatize this process using a simple loop over your addresses.
   

This solution worked fine at the time I wrote this post.

Pierre

Nature Network Reloaded

Nature Network Boston(NNB) is a networking tool for scientists in the Boston area. It was created last year and I was little bit disappointed when I compared it to www.linkedin.com or www.openbc/xing.com.


Today I received this mail from NNB:

(...)
Thank you for setting up the Bioinformatics and Semantic Web groups on Nature Network Boston. I know it's been a while, but I finally have news about the website to report.

At the end of February/early March, Nature Network Boston will become part of a new website called Nature Network, which will be global in scope so we will be inviting scientists from all over the world to use the site. NNB will become a local channel within Nature Network (with local news and events).

Groups will still be there. On Nature Network, they will be labeled as either global or local (Boston-based) in scope. When we go live with Nature Network, all existing groups on NNB will, by default, be labeled a Boston group.

The other new thing going live in early March: each group will get its own discussion forum, so that group members can post messages and respond to each other. I'll send you another email in a few weeks with more details about how to be a moderator in your group forums.



Great ! I'm impatient to see this :-)