Citizen Science Hack Day
science.okfn.org
on 05/03/2013
Excerpt: Come and join other citizen scientists, humanities folks, technologists, designers, students, scientists, and all who are curious for a two days of Crowdcrafting Citizen Science at Medialab-Prado, Madrid, Spain. We’ll be hacking together apps and projects with various open tools such as Epicollect, PyBossa and/or BOINC. The goal of the hackfest is to show the benefits that Citizen Science gives to citizens as well as professional scientists thanks to the new technologies.... read the full post.
Tags: Hackathon, Science
Science Europe denounces ‘hybrid’ Open Access
blog.okfn.org
on 05/02/2013
Excerpt: This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect during the transition to open access. Unlike the recent US OSTP public access policy which allows publishers to apply up to a 12 month access embargo (to the disgust of some scientists like Michael Eisen) on publicly-funded research, this new Science Europe statement makes clear that only up to a 6 month embargo at maximum should be accepted for publicly funded STEM research. The recent RCUK (UK research councils) open access policy also requires 6 months embargo at most, with some caveats.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Science
Web-enable your Research/Project with an API
blog.mashape.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: This post is intended to help data scientists and engineers who in some capacity have implemented routines/algorithms/data that does a specialized function (e. g. machine learning) using a dynamically typed language, such as Python. The goal is to web-enable these routines/algorithms using an application programming interface (API).
Exposing these functions/data as an API allows for:
Easier, faster, and consistent sharing of functionality/data that could further progress the research. A good example of this is the Materials Project from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They deemed it necessary for the scientific community to have access to their data, hence exposing it as an API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Research, Science
Opening up the wisdom of crowds for science
blog.okfn.org
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: We are excited to announce the official launch of Crowdcrafting. org, an open source software platform – powered by our Pybossa technology – for developing and sharing projects that rely on the help of thousands of online volunteers. At a workshop on Citizen Cyberscience held this week at University of Geneva, a novel open source software platform called Crowdcrafting was officially launched. This platform, which already has attracted thousands of participants during several months of testing, enables the rapid development of online citizen science applications, by both amateur and professional scientists.... read the full post.
Tags: Crowdfunding, Data, Science
PW Interview: Karthik Ram, rOpenSci, Wrapping all science APIs
blog.programmableweb.com
on 03/20/2013
Excerpt: Here is an interview with Karthik Ram, who has co-created the rOpenSci project, which helps make REST APIs consumable by the R language. Developers can take note of this – R is one of the widely used statistical languages in the world, and has many GUIs for making advanced data mining easily available. Ajay -What was the motivation in creating rOpenSci? Karthik-I’ve long been frustrated by not having easy access to data that was supposed to be freely available or being able to reproduce findings from a study. This frustration got me started on the open science track. Around the same time I found Carl and Scott talking about several of the same issues on Twitter. We then decided to pool our resources together and start rOpenSci.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Science
The Zoobank API: Tools for Verifying the Originality of Species
blog.programmableweb.com
on 03/01/2013
Excerpt: Quick, what do these ten people have in common: Richard Dawkins, Bob Marley, Beyonce, John Cleese, George Bush, Kate Winslet, Adolph Hitler, David Attenborough and Hugh Hefner? Forget that question for the moment and concentrate on something more important. Zoobank, the world’s official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, has released the Zoobank API. The website for the API states that responses are either JSON or HTML formatted, and focius on just four data types: names for animals that have been published, publications that contain those names, authors of the works containing the names and type specimens for scientific names of animals.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Science, Species
Public neuroscience data and open API foster creative innovation and new tool development « Florida Biotechnology News
floridabiotechnews.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science opened its doors to a diverse group of programmers and informatics experts for a non-stop week of collaboration, learning and coding based on its public online platform of data, tools and source code. The event brought together more than 30 participants from top universities and institutes ranging from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Poland, as well as from start-ups and established technology companies, to develop data analysis strategies and tools based on the newly enhanced Allen Brain Atlas application programming interface (API).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Bio Technology, Neuroscience, Science
The Spitcast API: The Science of Surf
blog.programmableweb.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: For as long as people have been grabbing a board and trying to catch some waves, attempting to predict surf quality has been considered an art. Spitcast is trying to turn the art of prediction into the science of surf. Jack Mullis, the founder and developer of Spitcast, has been surfing for years. In 2005 he decided to combine his knowledge of surfing with his degree in Engineering Physics and create a unique algorithm that can predict future surf conditions by using Java and MySQL to cross reference NOAA regional weather data with observations at specific surf spots. This process has been shown to produce predictions accurate to 1 foot standard deviation. With the Spitcast API, this data can be transformed into custom applications.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Science
Hack Your Mind: Allen Brain Atlas API Launched
blog.programmableweb.com
on 06/30/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization in Seattle, Washington, worked for several years to build a map of gene expression in the human brain. It released a Mouse Brain Atlas in 2007, then used similar techniques to complete its Human Brain Atlas in 2010. Last week, at its first hackathon, the Institute launched an API for the Human Brain Atlas, allowing researchers all over the world direct access to that information. Of course, the Allen Institute has always made its data freely available, but the API offers new ways to use Brain Atlas information without having to download petabyte-sized archive files.... read the full post.
Tags: ProgrammableWeb, Science
Research Data via Web Services
www.dddmag.com
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: Cortellis for Informatics uses sophisticated application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance the research and development process by delivering real-time access to information and tools for biopharmaceutical competitive intelligence, drug pipeline, and drug research and development. Each API integrates Thomson Reuters data with proprietary content and public information sources into a comprehensive view that is customized to meet the needs of a company, team or individual researcher. Data can be shared in a number of ways, including dashboards, custom reports and alerts, and intranet and mobile applications. Cortellis for Informatics streamlines information sharing across all levels of the organization.... read the full post.
Tags: Drugs, Research, Science
Excerpt: This is an extremely timely & important document that clarifies what governments and research funders should expect during the transition to open access. Unlike the recent US OSTP public access policy which allows publishers to apply up to a 12 month access embargo (to the disgust of some scientists like Michael Eisen) on publicly-funded research, this new Science Europe statement makes clear that only up to a 6 month embargo at maximum should be accepted for publicly funded STEM research. The recent RCUK (UK research councils) open access policy also requires 6 months embargo at most, with some caveats.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Civic, Data, Science
Web-enable your Research/Project with an API
blog.mashape.com
on 04/30/2013
Excerpt: This post is intended to help data scientists and engineers who in some capacity have implemented routines/algorithms/data that does a specialized function (e. g. machine learning) using a dynamically typed language, such as Python. The goal is to web-enable these routines/algorithms using an application programming interface (API).
Exposing these functions/data as an API allows for:
Easier, faster, and consistent sharing of functionality/data that could further progress the research. A good example of this is the Materials Project from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. They deemed it necessary for the scientific community to have access to their data, hence exposing it as an API.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Research, Science
Opening up the wisdom of crowds for science
blog.okfn.org
on 04/22/2013
Excerpt: We are excited to announce the official launch of Crowdcrafting. org, an open source software platform – powered by our Pybossa technology – for developing and sharing projects that rely on the help of thousands of online volunteers. At a workshop on Citizen Cyberscience held this week at University of Geneva, a novel open source software platform called Crowdcrafting was officially launched. This platform, which already has attracted thousands of participants during several months of testing, enables the rapid development of online citizen science applications, by both amateur and professional scientists.... read the full post.
Tags: Crowdfunding, Data, Science
PW Interview: Karthik Ram, rOpenSci, Wrapping all science APIs
blog.programmableweb.com
on 03/20/2013
Excerpt: Here is an interview with Karthik Ram, who has co-created the rOpenSci project, which helps make REST APIs consumable by the R language. Developers can take note of this – R is one of the widely used statistical languages in the world, and has many GUIs for making advanced data mining easily available. Ajay -What was the motivation in creating rOpenSci? Karthik-I’ve long been frustrated by not having easy access to data that was supposed to be freely available or being able to reproduce findings from a study. This frustration got me started on the open science track. Around the same time I found Carl and Scott talking about several of the same issues on Twitter. We then decided to pool our resources together and start rOpenSci.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Science
The Zoobank API: Tools for Verifying the Originality of Species
blog.programmableweb.com
on 03/01/2013
Excerpt: Quick, what do these ten people have in common: Richard Dawkins, Bob Marley, Beyonce, John Cleese, George Bush, Kate Winslet, Adolph Hitler, David Attenborough and Hugh Hefner? Forget that question for the moment and concentrate on something more important. Zoobank, the world’s official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, has released the Zoobank API. The website for the API states that responses are either JSON or HTML formatted, and focius on just four data types: names for animals that have been published, publications that contain those names, authors of the works containing the names and type specimens for scientific names of animals.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Science, Species
Public neuroscience data and open API foster creative innovation and new tool development « Florida Biotechnology News
floridabiotechnews.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science opened its doors to a diverse group of programmers and informatics experts for a non-stop week of collaboration, learning and coding based on its public online platform of data, tools and source code. The event brought together more than 30 participants from top universities and institutes ranging from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Poland, as well as from start-ups and established technology companies, to develop data analysis strategies and tools based on the newly enhanced Allen Brain Atlas application programming interface (API).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Bio Technology, Neuroscience, Science
The Spitcast API: The Science of Surf
blog.programmableweb.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: For as long as people have been grabbing a board and trying to catch some waves, attempting to predict surf quality has been considered an art. Spitcast is trying to turn the art of prediction into the science of surf. Jack Mullis, the founder and developer of Spitcast, has been surfing for years. In 2005 he decided to combine his knowledge of surfing with his degree in Engineering Physics and create a unique algorithm that can predict future surf conditions by using Java and MySQL to cross reference NOAA regional weather data with observations at specific surf spots. This process has been shown to produce predictions accurate to 1 foot standard deviation. With the Spitcast API, this data can be transformed into custom applications.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Science
Hack Your Mind: Allen Brain Atlas API Launched
blog.programmableweb.com
on 06/30/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization in Seattle, Washington, worked for several years to build a map of gene expression in the human brain. It released a Mouse Brain Atlas in 2007, then used similar techniques to complete its Human Brain Atlas in 2010. Last week, at its first hackathon, the Institute launched an API for the Human Brain Atlas, allowing researchers all over the world direct access to that information. Of course, the Allen Institute has always made its data freely available, but the API offers new ways to use Brain Atlas information without having to download petabyte-sized archive files.... read the full post.
Tags: ProgrammableWeb, Science
Research Data via Web Services
www.dddmag.com
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: Cortellis for Informatics uses sophisticated application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance the research and development process by delivering real-time access to information and tools for biopharmaceutical competitive intelligence, drug pipeline, and drug research and development. Each API integrates Thomson Reuters data with proprietary content and public information sources into a comprehensive view that is customized to meet the needs of a company, team or individual researcher. Data can be shared in a number of ways, including dashboards, custom reports and alerts, and intranet and mobile applications. Cortellis for Informatics streamlines information sharing across all levels of the organization.... read the full post.
Tags: Drugs, Research, Science
Excerpt: We are excited to announce the official launch of Crowdcrafting. org, an open source software platform – powered by our Pybossa technology – for developing and sharing projects that rely on the help of thousands of online volunteers. At a workshop on Citizen Cyberscience held this week at University of Geneva, a novel open source software platform called Crowdcrafting was officially launched. This platform, which already has attracted thousands of participants during several months of testing, enables the rapid development of online citizen science applications, by both amateur and professional scientists.... read the full post.
Tags: Crowdfunding, Data, Science
PW Interview: Karthik Ram, rOpenSci, Wrapping all science APIs
blog.programmableweb.com
on 03/20/2013
Excerpt: Here is an interview with Karthik Ram, who has co-created the rOpenSci project, which helps make REST APIs consumable by the R language. Developers can take note of this – R is one of the widely used statistical languages in the world, and has many GUIs for making advanced data mining easily available. Ajay -What was the motivation in creating rOpenSci? Karthik-I’ve long been frustrated by not having easy access to data that was supposed to be freely available or being able to reproduce findings from a study. This frustration got me started on the open science track. Around the same time I found Carl and Scott talking about several of the same issues on Twitter. We then decided to pool our resources together and start rOpenSci.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Science
The Zoobank API: Tools for Verifying the Originality of Species
blog.programmableweb.com
on 03/01/2013
Excerpt: Quick, what do these ten people have in common: Richard Dawkins, Bob Marley, Beyonce, John Cleese, George Bush, Kate Winslet, Adolph Hitler, David Attenborough and Hugh Hefner? Forget that question for the moment and concentrate on something more important. Zoobank, the world’s official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, has released the Zoobank API. The website for the API states that responses are either JSON or HTML formatted, and focius on just four data types: names for animals that have been published, publications that contain those names, authors of the works containing the names and type specimens for scientific names of animals.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Science, Species
Public neuroscience data and open API foster creative innovation and new tool development « Florida Biotechnology News
floridabiotechnews.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science opened its doors to a diverse group of programmers and informatics experts for a non-stop week of collaboration, learning and coding based on its public online platform of data, tools and source code. The event brought together more than 30 participants from top universities and institutes ranging from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Poland, as well as from start-ups and established technology companies, to develop data analysis strategies and tools based on the newly enhanced Allen Brain Atlas application programming interface (API).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Bio Technology, Neuroscience, Science
The Spitcast API: The Science of Surf
blog.programmableweb.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: For as long as people have been grabbing a board and trying to catch some waves, attempting to predict surf quality has been considered an art. Spitcast is trying to turn the art of prediction into the science of surf. Jack Mullis, the founder and developer of Spitcast, has been surfing for years. In 2005 he decided to combine his knowledge of surfing with his degree in Engineering Physics and create a unique algorithm that can predict future surf conditions by using Java and MySQL to cross reference NOAA regional weather data with observations at specific surf spots. This process has been shown to produce predictions accurate to 1 foot standard deviation. With the Spitcast API, this data can be transformed into custom applications.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Science
Hack Your Mind: Allen Brain Atlas API Launched
blog.programmableweb.com
on 06/30/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization in Seattle, Washington, worked for several years to build a map of gene expression in the human brain. It released a Mouse Brain Atlas in 2007, then used similar techniques to complete its Human Brain Atlas in 2010. Last week, at its first hackathon, the Institute launched an API for the Human Brain Atlas, allowing researchers all over the world direct access to that information. Of course, the Allen Institute has always made its data freely available, but the API offers new ways to use Brain Atlas information without having to download petabyte-sized archive files.... read the full post.
Tags: ProgrammableWeb, Science
Research Data via Web Services
www.dddmag.com
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: Cortellis for Informatics uses sophisticated application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance the research and development process by delivering real-time access to information and tools for biopharmaceutical competitive intelligence, drug pipeline, and drug research and development. Each API integrates Thomson Reuters data with proprietary content and public information sources into a comprehensive view that is customized to meet the needs of a company, team or individual researcher. Data can be shared in a number of ways, including dashboards, custom reports and alerts, and intranet and mobile applications. Cortellis for Informatics streamlines information sharing across all levels of the organization.... read the full post.
Tags: Drugs, Research, Science
Excerpt: Quick, what do these ten people have in common: Richard Dawkins, Bob Marley, Beyonce, John Cleese, George Bush, Kate Winslet, Adolph Hitler, David Attenborough and Hugh Hefner? Forget that question for the moment and concentrate on something more important. Zoobank, the world’s official registry of Zoological Nomenclature, has released the Zoobank API. The website for the API states that responses are either JSON or HTML formatted, and focius on just four data types: names for animals that have been published, publications that contain those names, authors of the works containing the names and type specimens for scientific names of animals.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Science, Species
Public neuroscience data and open API foster creative innovation and new tool development « Florida Biotechnology News
floridabiotechnews.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science opened its doors to a diverse group of programmers and informatics experts for a non-stop week of collaboration, learning and coding based on its public online platform of data, tools and source code. The event brought together more than 30 participants from top universities and institutes ranging from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston to the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology in Poland, as well as from start-ups and established technology companies, to develop data analysis strategies and tools based on the newly enhanced Allen Brain Atlas application programming interface (API).... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Bio Technology, Neuroscience, Science
The Spitcast API: The Science of Surf
blog.programmableweb.com
on 07/02/2012
Excerpt: For as long as people have been grabbing a board and trying to catch some waves, attempting to predict surf quality has been considered an art. Spitcast is trying to turn the art of prediction into the science of surf. Jack Mullis, the founder and developer of Spitcast, has been surfing for years. In 2005 he decided to combine his knowledge of surfing with his degree in Engineering Physics and create a unique algorithm that can predict future surf conditions by using Java and MySQL to cross reference NOAA regional weather data with observations at specific surf spots. This process has been shown to produce predictions accurate to 1 foot standard deviation. With the Spitcast API, this data can be transformed into custom applications.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Science
Hack Your Mind: Allen Brain Atlas API Launched
blog.programmableweb.com
on 06/30/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization in Seattle, Washington, worked for several years to build a map of gene expression in the human brain. It released a Mouse Brain Atlas in 2007, then used similar techniques to complete its Human Brain Atlas in 2010. Last week, at its first hackathon, the Institute launched an API for the Human Brain Atlas, allowing researchers all over the world direct access to that information. Of course, the Allen Institute has always made its data freely available, but the API offers new ways to use Brain Atlas information without having to download petabyte-sized archive files.... read the full post.
Tags: ProgrammableWeb, Science
Research Data via Web Services
www.dddmag.com
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: Cortellis for Informatics uses sophisticated application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance the research and development process by delivering real-time access to information and tools for biopharmaceutical competitive intelligence, drug pipeline, and drug research and development. Each API integrates Thomson Reuters data with proprietary content and public information sources into a comprehensive view that is customized to meet the needs of a company, team or individual researcher. Data can be shared in a number of ways, including dashboards, custom reports and alerts, and intranet and mobile applications. Cortellis for Informatics streamlines information sharing across all levels of the organization.... read the full post.
Tags: Drugs, Research, Science
Excerpt: For as long as people have been grabbing a board and trying to catch some waves, attempting to predict surf quality has been considered an art. Spitcast is trying to turn the art of prediction into the science of surf. Jack Mullis, the founder and developer of Spitcast, has been surfing for years. In 2005 he decided to combine his knowledge of surfing with his degree in Engineering Physics and create a unique algorithm that can predict future surf conditions by using Java and MySQL to cross reference NOAA regional weather data with observations at specific surf spots. This process has been shown to produce predictions accurate to 1 foot standard deviation. With the Spitcast API, this data can be transformed into custom applications.... read the full post.
Tags: API-Evangelist, Science
Hack Your Mind: Allen Brain Atlas API Launched
blog.programmableweb.com
on 06/30/2012
Excerpt: The Allen Institute for Brain Science, a non-profit medical research organization in Seattle, Washington, worked for several years to build a map of gene expression in the human brain. It released a Mouse Brain Atlas in 2007, then used similar techniques to complete its Human Brain Atlas in 2010. Last week, at its first hackathon, the Institute launched an API for the Human Brain Atlas, allowing researchers all over the world direct access to that information. Of course, the Allen Institute has always made its data freely available, but the API offers new ways to use Brain Atlas information without having to download petabyte-sized archive files.... read the full post.
Tags: ProgrammableWeb, Science
Research Data via Web Services
www.dddmag.com
on 06/04/2012
Excerpt: Cortellis for Informatics uses sophisticated application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance the research and development process by delivering real-time access to information and tools for biopharmaceutical competitive intelligence, drug pipeline, and drug research and development. Each API integrates Thomson Reuters data with proprietary content and public information sources into a comprehensive view that is customized to meet the needs of a company, team or individual researcher. Data can be shared in a number of ways, including dashboards, custom reports and alerts, and intranet and mobile applications. Cortellis for Informatics streamlines information sharing across all levels of the organization.... read the full post.
Tags: Drugs, Research, Science
Excerpt: Cortellis for Informatics uses sophisticated application programming interfaces (APIs) to enhance the research and development process by delivering real-time access to information and tools for biopharmaceutical competitive intelligence, drug pipeline, and drug research and development. Each API integrates Thomson Reuters data with proprietary content and public information sources into a comprehensive view that is customized to meet the needs of a company, team or individual researcher. Data can be shared in a number of ways, including dashboards, custom reports and alerts, and intranet and mobile applications. Cortellis for Informatics streamlines information sharing across all levels of the organization.... read the full post.
Tags: Drugs, Research, Science
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