MyBio:About
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What is MyBio?
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"MyBio is the biologist's wiki workbench" |
Welcome to MyBio - Open Content for Life Scientists
This site is used by Life Science Researchers to find tools and databases related to all sorts of molecular biological and bioinformatics related activity, but also experimental troubleshooting, tutorials, as well as applications and methodology related information. Most people will want to go straight to the Main Page to start finding web resources. Everyone can edit MyBio.net!
MyBio does not seek to duplicate Wikipedia's role in providing encyclopedia-type articles covering life sciences-related topics. However, Wikipedia articles are, or should be, written for a general audience. This project is not an attempt to copy Wikipedia content to MyBio, but to provide an extensive user-contributed base of information of use to Life Sciences Researchers at all levels, built upon information in the public domain and expand it with that specialized readership in mind.
Registered users can add links, journal articles, or any other relevant material here, or edit that content. MyBio is amenable to a lot more besides - read the FAQ. You can also put your CV in your own Users page (your own homepage hosted on MyBio, you can find it by clicking on your username link, at the top of every page), and refer employers to it. Registration is free of charge.
If you want to start using the MyBio for more complex purposes, please read the FAQ now.
Who else is using MyBio?
There were nearly 3000 users registered before porting to Wikia, all of whom were able to edit this wiki by logging in with the same login details they use on the forum. In late 2006, before we began to encourage users to use the wiki rather than older versions of this site, thousands of visits were recorded each month, by thousands unique users each month. A small number of [index.php?title=Special%3APrefixindex&from=&namespace=2 Users] have created their own pages, and many users have registered, in fact, everybody who is registered can use the same login to edit and add pages on the wiki. To create your own "personal or business card" click on your username at the top-right-hand-side of the page once you are logged in.
History of MyBio
This web site has grown and evolved since 2001 to the present incarnation, find out more about the History of MyBio
Dedication by the Founding Curator
Jon Rees who founded the MyBio site in 2001 (as "MolBiol.net"), would like to dedicate this site to the memory of his father, David Gwyn Rees, born 8 April 1937, died 9 January 2008 - a loving father and dedicated lecturer in statistics, who gave me courage, encouragement and motivation.
Relevant Links
Why did we make Bioinformatics.Net into a wiki?
Find out about what the MyBio Logo signifies
Just What is a Wiki?
Citations of BioDirectory and Bioinformatics.Net
Other Life Sciences wikis
