MyBio:Community Portal
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The Community Portal is the central place to find out what's happening on MyBio, and how to interact and get involved. Learn what tasks need to be done, and get or post news about recent or current activities. You could call this social networking for life scientists with the aim of creating a resource shared by all which is totally Open Content. This means it can be shared, copies and re-used by other scientists for their work in the same way as making a photocopy of a protocol or media recipe for your friend in the lab nextdoor: except all labs are now neighbours on the world wide wikiweb. Find out about Contributing Information to MyBio.
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Ongoing Projects
This are listed in order of priority, which members can discuss and change. You can also find out about Contributing Information to MyBio.
- Updating the Databases sections with the contents of the new NAR 2007 Web Server Issue and completing the annotation of the last few tools in the NAR 2007 Database Issue, also see Talk:Databases
- Finishing updating MyBio with the tools listed in the NAR 2006 Web Server issue and here.
- Final sweep of NAR 2006 Database Issue for databases which haven't yet been included here.
- Continue to grow a page of commonly used life science Abbreviations
- Completion of a quicklinks page MyBioTop100 reminscent of the early ancestor of this website, MolBiol.Net, for quick reference by users based on what was popular in BioDirectory Top 100 links in all time.
- Patrolling recent changes to remove sloppy or advertorial content, such as companies adding multiple listings in irrelevant places, for which users are invited to punish by deletion and avoidance of their products and services. Recent culprits include User:BIOBASE
- Biotechnology Clusters of Companies is a nascent attempt to create a comprehensive description of the biotech industry respresented by cluster of companies around the world.
- List of all articles] still includes lots of "About subject" pages many of which need their contents transferring to the relevant superceding "Subject" articles.
- There needs to be a discussion about which, if any, literature search form to put in the left hand sidebar, such as PubMed or GoPubMed
- There needs to be a discussion about whether and if to use Wikipedia articles (properly referenced and acknowledged) as starting points for academically rigorous educational complements to this wiki.
- You could try to keep up with key articles by reading and contributing to the Journal Watch section, which was kindly donated by Y.F.Leung, however, at the time of adoption to MyBio it hadn't been updated for quite some time.
A single login for each user on the forum, blog or wiki
BioDirectory also contains a forum for interactive discussions and a free blog facility for scientists. When you register with the forum, your login details will work on the wiki, and vice versa, so when you login - you can take part in any aspect of the community. When you login to the forum, you are also logged in to MyBio, and vice-versa - so you don't need to worry about logging in and out all the time.
Ask and answer questions in the Discussion Forum
| DPL Forum: Too few categories! |
The discussion forum has sections for General Discussion and Announcements, as well as a section for Help on Protocols, a section on Help with Sequence Analysis, Genomics and Proteomics Data Analysis, Bioinformatics Software and Databases, and a section for Vacancies and Jobs Wanted.
More than 2,950 people have so far registered on the forum, and users who ask or answer questions can win prizes - see past winners on the Winners Page.
Blogs for Scientists
There were a number of blogs maintained on MyBio, the most popular of which was Chris Upton'sBioInfoBlog which is maintained by Dr. Chris Upton of the Viral Bioinformatics Resource Centre. Chris often highlights interesting projects such as Rosetta@Home, and interesting articles and web resources for biologists.
Useful extentions
Software/Extensions Check out these cool extensions we have created to make using MyBio easier!