Changes

I started a new job recently at Nature Publishing Group, where I'm working with Alf Eaton in the web publishing department. Most of my time is going into developing a new kickass information management tool but I'll also keep working on Postgenomic (which remains open source: think Connotea).

While I enjoyed working in my previous lab it's refreshing to be in an environment where people are excited about the same ideas and opportunities as I am. I'm also not required to change printer cartridges any more (at least not yet), which is a plus.

On a side note (hur hur) I've been playing around with the new, long-time-in-coming Postgenomic API. Under "most popular posts" to the right you should see a list of Flags and Lollipops posts ordered by the number of incoming links. Nifty, no?

I refactored a lot of the Postgenomic code recently. At the time of writing postgenomic.com is still running an earlier version for technical reasons, but Sourceforge should have a new release soon. The new API gives you access to posts, blogs and papers ordered and filtered in various ways - metadata includes things like lat / long for conference reports, DOIs and pubmed IDs for papers and the number of incoming links (from other science blogs) for blogs and posts.

Things are still pretty alpha, but if any of that sounds interesting and you fancy getting your hands on an early release that's subject to change get in touch and I'll send you the relevant links.