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Generates an HTML page including a Processing.js visualization based on entered or remote source code.

by Daniel Shiffman. Renders a simple tree-like structure via recursion Branching angle calculated as a function of horizontal mouse location

These Web Services can be used to create applications on Molecules and their Properties. Details of the Web Services can be found here. If you are new to using these Web Services, please take a few minutes to read the instructions here.

Law professors defend NIH policy against copyright objections Forty-six law professors and specialists in copyright law wrote to the House Judiciary Committee on September 8 to show that the publishing lobby's objections to the NIH policy misrepresent US copyright law. The Committee had the letter in hand when it convened the September 11 hearing on the Conyers bill. The letter is now online. Excerpt:

We are focused on providing tools to our users to ensure that they can add information of interest to structure-based records in ChemSpider. We have introduced DOI-based associations recently allowing users to connect publications of interest to chemical compounds on our database. The process is simple. Find the structure record of interest, use the Add DOI function and Publish. The process is outlined graphically below.

If required, entire databases can be downloaded from our FTP site in a variety of formats, from flat files to MySQL dumps. Please be aware that these files can run to many gigabytes of data. To facilitate storage and download all databases are GNU Zip (gzip, *.gz) compressed. Please note: Ensembl supports downloading of many correlation tables via the highly customisable BioMart data mining tool. You may find exploring this web-based data mining tool easier than extracting information from our database dumps.

For large amounts of data and more detailed analysis, we recommend you use our publicly-accessible MySQL server, ensembldb.ensembl.org, which you can access as user 'anonymous'. A second server, martdb.ensembl.org provides public access to the BioMart databases.

With the following three steps, you can set up a Disco cluster in the Amazon's Elastic Computing Cloud. This will cost you a few dollars (or more, depending on your needs) but requires no resources on your side besides a single machine that you use to setup the cluster. In this setup Disco master and nodes run on EC2. Your Disco client can run either on the master node on EC2 or on a local machine.

WikiGenes is the first wiki system to combine the collaborative and largely altruistic possibilities of wikis with explicit authorship. In view of the extraordinary success of Wikipedia there remains no doubt about the potential of collaborative publishing, yet its adoption in science has been limited. Here I discuss a dynamic collaborative knowledge base for the life sciences that provides authors with due credit and that can evolve via continual revision and traditional peer review into a rigorous scientific

In the page on Thoughs on institutional OER contributions I argue that (among other things) having a good export of material from shared resources (like the OER Toolkit or wikieducator) is important for getting institutions to contribute. How is this requirement met by the platform used for the OER Toolkit and wikieducator?

The establishment of open access literature makes it possible for knowledge to be extracted from scholarly articles and included in other resources. BioLit aims to extract database identifiers and rich meta-data from open access articles in the life sciences and integrate that information with existing biological databases. We have begun prototyping this effort using a clone of the RCSB Protein Data Bank, a database of macromolecular structures.