Optimising science
Our thoughts on all things software and science.
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Annotate All The Things: iAnnotate 2013 Round Up
Last month, the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco was host to a gathering of publishers, editors, technologists, and geeks, all with an interest in the latest developments in Web-based annotation. Over the course of three days attendees of the iAnnotate conference learned about the latest applications of annotation technologies, new standards in the field, and other ideas all related to annotation of content on the World Wide Web.
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Introducing Projects – Digital Science’s first home-grown tool
Digital Science is proud to announce the launch of its very own home-grown software tool – Projects. Projects is a safe, simple and structured way for scientific researchers to organise their research outputs. It helps to keep track of experiments, save time and get ahead with research.
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Riemann On Rails (Part Two)
In a previous post we looked at how to generate metrics in a Ruby on Rails application and how to pass this data into Riemann. In this post we will cover some basics of configuring a Riemann server as well as how we can go about processing our...
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Google Glass for researchers
The engineering group at Digital Science have recently become proud members of the Google Glass Explorers programme thanks to our small pitch on Google+.
In anticipation of receiving our Google Glass unit in the next couple of months...
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Riemann On Rails (Part One)
Application metrics can provide a useful insight into the inner workings of your application. A metric might be the time taken to run a database query, how long a user stayed on one of your pages or generated when an exception is raised. We could...
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Pi-day: When Justin Bieber met Newton
Last month heralded Pi Day, in celebration of the mathematical constant and irrational number Pi. The 14th of March - or 3/14 - celebrates the number which is the ratio between a circle's circumference and it's diameter, and beloved of mathematicians everywhere. To mark the occasion at here at Digital Science, we held an informal math challenge involving Justin Beiber, pie filling, and tenuous but amusing proofs.
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Digital Science and SciBite form strategic partnership for life sciences text mining
Some exciting news for Digital Science on the text mining front. We recently signed a strategic partnership agreement with SciBite, a UK startup that has put together an impressive scientific news and alerts service focused on drug discovery....
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A new look (and features) for Labguru
Congratulations to our colleagues at BioData who today pushed a significant upgrade to Labguru, a web-based app that helps scientists better manage their research and more broadly, their lab.
The upgrade features a new, more minimalist, organised...
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Wiley makes PDFs interactive with ReadCube Web Reader
It's been a busy few weeks for our colleagues at Labtiva, creators of ReadCube, who today launched the ReadCube Web Reader on content from John Wiley & Sons, a global provider of content in scientific, technical, medical and scholarly...
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figshare announces new partnership with the Public Library of Science
figshare, a community-driven open data project, today announced a new partnership with the Public Library of Science (PLOS) to aid the visualisation of different types of data across the PLOS journals and make the data more widely accessible. fig...
