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BridgeDb NWO grant update #1: first steps
Last year, Denise, Tina, Marvin, and I received an NWO Open Science grant (203.001.121) to improve the long running BridgeDb project, originally developed by Martijn van Iersel (see doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-5). Helena joined our group as research software engineer and will work part-time on this grant. We started two weeks ago, so time for an update of results: -
BioHackathon Europe 2021 #1: CiTO annotations in BioHackrXiv
Serendipity. I did not plan this hack at the BioHackathon Europe 2021 but it happened anyway. Based on earlier work in the Journal of Cheminformatics, extending on the work by Krewinkel et al. I looked into the idea of using the Lua filter for BioHackrXiv, a preprint server for BioHackathons. Actually, I started by looking at the Citation Styling Language file used by the BioHackrXiv tools. But that was just wrong. -
CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch
During the time of the editorial about the Journal of Cheminformatics Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) Pilot I already worked out a model to add CiTO annotation in Wikidata. It looks like this for the first research article with annotation: -
SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and Open Science
WP4846 that I started on March 16. It will see a massive overhaul in the next weeks. Voices are getting stronger over how important Open Science is. Insiders have known the advantages for decades. We also know the issues in the transition, but the transition has been steady. Contributing to Open Science is simple: there are plenty of project where you can contribute without jeopardizing your own research (funding or prestige). Myself, my small contributions have been done without funding too. But I needed to do something. I have been mostly self-quarantined since March 6, with only very few exception. And I’m so done with it. Like so many other people. It won’t stop me wearing masks when I go shopping (etc).