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Scholarly communication is going through a period of change driven by the digitization of scholarship and as a result new business models, such as open access. In many ways we are just at the beginning with the analog form of discourse now appearing as a digital PDF. We have yet to unleash the full power of the medium and go beyond the PDF, in part because of conservatism and antiquated reward systems. Biomedical informatics could drive a very positive change since the expertise exists to make change work, and the discipline comprises online data, computational methods, analysis, visualization, web based dissemination which are the raw materials for change. We will discuss what could be done and what are the implications. |
BIO:
Philip E. Bourne, Ph.D., is Associate Vice Chancellor for Innovation and Industry Alliances, a Professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California San Diego, Associate Director of the RCSB Protein Data Bank and an Adjunct Professor at the Sanford Burnham Institute. Dr. Bourne's professional interests focus on relevant biological and educational outcomes derived from computation and scholarly communication. This implies algorithms, text mining, machine learning, metalanguages, biological databases, and visualization applied to problems in systems pharmacology, evolution, cell signaling, apoptosis, immunology and scientific dissemination. He has published over 300 papers and 5 books, one of which sold over 150,000 copies.
Dr. Bourne is committed to maximizing the societal benefit derived from university research. He has co-founded 4 companies: ViSoft Inc., Protein Vision Inc., a company distributing independent films for free and most recently SciVee. He is committed to furthering the free dissemination of science through new models of publishing and better integration and subsequent dissemination of data and results which as far as possible should be freely available to all. He is the co-founder and founding Editor-in-Chief of the open access journal PLOS Computational Biology. Dr. Bourne is a Past President of the International Society for Computational Biology, an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and the American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA).
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Topic: What Bioinformaticians Need to Know About Digital Publishing Beyond the PDF
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