MIABiE guidelines for biofilm research

We are pleased to announce the registration of the MIABiE guidelines for reporting biofilm research.

Great RIN report on the use of and issues around data centres

Data centres: their use, value and impact | Research Information Network
Great report examining the use of and issues around data centres.
In short: they work, more needed.


Also relevant/current:
Data centres at heart of UK data sharing culture (JISC news item)
How do we incentivise data sharing? On standards, support and ‘data Oscars’ (Sarah Porter, JISC)

MIBBI workshop report now available

As you may be aware the latest MIBBI workshop was held at the start of this month. The report from this meeting is now available in the journal Standards in Genomic Sciences. Along with reports from a number of other relevant meetings (TOC here). There will be further discussion of the detailed outcomes from the meeting over the next few weeks with further announcements to follow.Thanks once again to everyone who attended the meeting (or tried to) despite the unseasonally harsh weather, with special thanks to the Beilstein-Institut for their sponsorship of the event.

Fairly succinct MIBBI/standards proceedings paper

MIBBI and its context were presented at the 4th Int'l Beilstein Symposium on Experimental Standard Conditions of Enzyme Characterizations (ESCEC) in 2009, for which a short paper was also prepared, linked here.

Great RIN/NESTA report on data sharing

The research Information Network (RIN) and the National Endowment for Science Technology and the Arts (NESTA) have just put out a really interesting report on the reasons for and problems with data sharing, based on six case studies (direct link to PDF). Lots of the issues are things that come up time and again, though it's nice to see the case made less anecdotally than I normally manage :)

BioSharing Network

MIBBI is now a part of the BioSharing Network (as indicated by the linked button at the foot of the main page): http://biosharing.org/

ISA-Tab blog: article on MICheckout

Brief article on MICheckout posted at the ISA blog on Wordpress.