ABSTRACT The web, like all network technologies before it from the mobile phone to writing itself, has the potential to enable a qualitative change in our capacity as people, organizations and societies. We are starting to see the first glimmerings of how our research capacity might change with projects like Galaxy Zoo and Polymath but these remain isolated examples. What will it take to exploit the network capacity that the web brings us to enable a step change in the efficiency and...

by Cameron Neylon - 20 July 2012

Robert Ramsey gives a talk at the LC2CAM conference about meadowlark optics liquid crystal capabilities, next generation nematic LC technology, and "swift liquid crystal" devices.

Dirk Broer gives a talk about optics, mechanics, and complex patterning of liquid crystal networks.

Sin-Doo Lee gives a talk at the LC2CAM conference about the general features of dye-doped systems and binary LC grating, and the surface mediated optical memory and optical rewritability of LC gratings.

Carol Post gives a talk at the RPP08 conference on Src, a mechanism of conformational activation. She covers two topics regarding it Src:
1) Switched electrostatic network
2) long-range coupling of regulatory SH2/SH3 and catalytic domain

For more information about this resource see our blog post at URL http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=6208. Here I'll introduce you to FLink, or Frequency weighted Links, NCBI's tool for linking items from one of their databases to a weighted list of associated items in another of their databases.

For more information about this tip and resource see our blog post at http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=5360. In this tip we introduce CircuitsDB, a database of MicroRNA / Transcription Factor Regulatory Circuits in Human and Mouse. We demonstrate a basic search and then explore the information provided in the result reports.

Presented by Siddharth Suri, Yahoo! Research Scientist. A fundamental principle in social network research is that individuals can benefit from serving as intermediaries between others who are not directly connected. Through such intermediation, they potentially can broker the flow of information and synthesize ideas arising in different parts of the network. These principles form the underpinning for the theory of structural holes, which studies the ways in which individuals, particularly...

Tropical ecosystems are the biologically richest places on the planet, yet what we know about them comes from scientific studies so specialized that the studies rarely make the local news. “Most ecological studies last fewer than five years at a single study site, with measurements focused on an area of only ten meters squared,” explains Sandy Andelman, Vice President of Conservation International for the Tropical Ecology Assessment and Monitoring (TEAM) network. “Ecology needs to scale...