Biogeekipedia: collecting raw materials
Posted by attilachordash on December 13, 2007
Wired’s Geekipedia is marketed as “People, places, ideas and trends you need to know now“. As such you can find biology and biotech related terms in it (part of the current hip and tech-savvy culture) like ‘stem cells‘, ‘RNAi‘ or ‘brain implants‘, explained. But you won’t find the terms ‘Natureplex’, ‘executable cell biology’, ‘Open Notebook Science’, ‘SciFoo Camp’, ‘23andMe’ or ‘Pharyngula’ in it. The idea of building a Geekipedia (call it Biogeekipedia) specialized to the life sciences (biology, biotech, biomedical sciences, bioengineering, biobloggers…) seems pretty straightforward. (Or you can expand it to all natural sciences, but that is not my concern here.) So here I’d like to ask my readers to suggest entries for this Biogeekipedia, exotic, rare, but cool niche terms, buzzwords, good phrases, sentences, ideas and people within the biotech realm (web included) we all need to know. Use your imagination instead of your tag cloud. I start with my own embyronic list right now on the top of my head without links and explanations (Intensive work hours are inversely correlated to the number of quality blog posts). Needless to say it is more of a joke than a serious adventure. (List updated with the suggestions of Mr. Gunn, Jon Rowley and Matthew Oki O’ Connor.)
23andMe
Adie, Euan
aging
ATP/ADP
biobase
biogerontology
biomaterials
biotech DIY (DIY biology, bioDIY, home biology , garage biology, Homebrew Molecular Biology Club)
cancer immunoediting
cell fusion
Chemical Blogspace
CIRM
Connotea
convergent medical technologies
Craig Venter
deCODE
Easton, Alf
embryome
executable cell biology
FACS
Geekipedia
Genentech
genetic reprogramming
Google First Ladies
Google Palimpsest Project
Google Scholar
greasemonkey
Hannay, Timo
high troughput screening
Hubmed
Human Genome Project
illumina
iPS
JoVE
Laboratory Website Awards
“low-input, high-throughput, no-output biology”
microarray
mitochondrial DNA
molecular biography
Myers, PZ
Natureplex
Navigenics
Nature Publishing Group
NIH
open data
Open Science
Open Notebook Science
OpenWetWare
“omics”
p53
peer review
Personal Genome Project
personalized (genetics, genomics, medicine)
pluripotency
PCR
PLoS
polonator
postgenomic
Proposition 71
PubMed
Qiagen
regenerative medicine
regenmed 2.0 (regmed)
reverse engineering
science blogs
Scienceblogs
science blog carnivals
SciFoo Camp
signal transduction
SENS
SNPedia
solexa
synthetic biology
systems biology
sequencing methods
sirtuins
SNP
tissue engineering (Rober Langer, Jospeh Vacanti, Eugene Bell)
Watson, James
Wired (Wired Science)
Yamanaka
Mr. Gunn said
iPS
pluripotency
cell fusion
biobase
SNPedia
open data
Alf Eaton
Hubmed
Euan Adie
Connotea
Neil Saunders
Pedro Beltrão
baoilleach
Noel O’Boyle
greasemonkey
chemical blogspace
openwetware
Yamanaka
deCODE
George Church
illumina
solexa
polonator
Navigenics
attila csordas said
Excellent list, post updated, thanks, Grady. I left out the bloggers because if include any name suggestion then suddenly everybody will be on the list.
Names should come with arguments: what is so special about this or that science geek. Of course, for the science blogging entry it is good have a list of the top ten science bloggers.
jrowley said
embryome
high content analysis
high throughput screening
convergent medical technologies
combination products
regenmed 2.0
bob langer
joseph vacanti
eugene bell
biomaterials
biomaterials for guiding cell function
and of course: The Regeneration Staition
attila csordas said
Thanks Jon, post updated I put the big tissue engineering names after the term ’tissue engineering’. If there will be more interesting suggestions like the former 2 we can move to a more serious phase with brief description, definition of the terms with links.
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okee said
signal transduction
biogerontology
NIH
James Watson