Userscripts for the life sciences
Egon and Noel have a paper in BMC Bioinformatics this month describing userscripts for the life sciences... nice work, guys.
Last year there was a discussion over at Pedro's of the merits of publishing individual userscripts after Ben Good's paper about a Greasemonkey based iHOP enhancement appeared in BMC. This is more of a review.
We discussed the possibility of hosting a science mashups / web services wiki at NPG - sort of like ProgrammableWeb, but listing only the APIs, databases and tools relevant to science. This sort of ties in with the post over at Nodalpoint that Alf wrote about documenting bioinformatics APIs. There's enough stuff available nowadays for it to be a useful resource, I think.
Incidentally: I started writing this post BEFORE I read the paper properly and realised that I got a namecheck for Postgenomic. Now I definitely recommend it. ;p
Last year there was a discussion over at Pedro's of the merits of publishing individual userscripts after Ben Good's paper about a Greasemonkey based iHOP enhancement appeared in BMC. This is more of a review.
We discussed the possibility of hosting a science mashups / web services wiki at NPG - sort of like ProgrammableWeb, but listing only the APIs, databases and tools relevant to science. This sort of ties in with the post over at Nodalpoint that Alf wrote about documenting bioinformatics APIs. There's enough stuff available nowadays for it to be a useful resource, I think.
Incidentally: I started writing this post BEFORE I read the paper properly and realised that I got a namecheck for Postgenomic. Now I definitely recommend it. ;p
Labels: api, greasemonkey, mashups
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