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January 8: Cameron Neylon, Ph.D., Network Ready Research: The Role of Open Source and Open Thinking
The highest principle of network architecture design is interoperability. If Metcalfe's Law tells us that a network's value can scale as some exponent of the number of connections, then our job in building networks is to ensure that those connections are as numerous, as operational, and as easy to create as possible. Where we make it easy for anyone to wire in new connections, we maximize the ability of others to contribute to the value of our shared networks. Bioinformatics has, from time to time, been derided as "slidedecks full of hairballs," yet those hairballs and their ubiquity are emblematic of the fact that at its heart bioinformatics is a science of networks: networks of physical interactions, of genetic control, of degrees of similarity, or of ecological interactions among many others. Bioinformatics is also among the most networked of research communities and among the most open in the sharing of research papers, research data, tools, and even research in process in online conversations and writing.
Session details...
BIO:
Cameron Neylon, Ph.D., is a practicing experimental scientist with an interest in how the Web can be effectively applied to the practice of science. Dr. Neylon is Advocacy Director at PLOS and previously was a Senior Scientist for Biomolecular Sciences, Science and Technology Facilities Council in the U.K. Dr. Neylon is in demand as a speaker and writer on the technical and social opportunities and issues that the Internet brings to scholarly communication and the ways in which the details of the scientific process can be recorded and communicated. His research has focused on the design and development of systems for capturing the research process at source and making it directly available on the web. Dr. Neylon writes regularly on these issues, as well as on the challenges the Web brings to traditional scientific practice in his blog Science in the Open.
SUMMARY:
Topic: Network Ready Research: The Role of Open Source and Open Thinking
Speaker: Cameron Neylon, Ph.D.
Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2014
Time: 11 AM – 12 PM
You are invited to listen to Dr. Neylon's presentation in Room 2W908 in the NCI Shady Grove Building on Medical Center Drive or via WebEx.
Presentation: A screen cast of the presentation will be available for viewing after the event here on our Speaker Series Videos page and on the NCI’s CBIIT Speaker Series YouTube Playlist
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About the NCI CBIIT Speaker Series:
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology (CBIIT) Speaker Series is a bi-weekly knowledge-sharing forum featuring both internal and external speakers on topics of interest to the biomedical informatics and research communities. For additional information, including past speaker series presentations, visit the CBIIT Speaker Series page .
Questions? Please email us at NCICBIITcomms@mail.nih.gov.
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