Search Engines & Research Tools

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Bio-IT World June 2006 Graeme O'Neill	Why Variety Is the Spice of Life In an effort to bring order to the field of single nucleotide polymorphism research data collection and management, pioneering mutation hunter Richard Cotton has organized The Human Variome Project Meeting in Melbourne, Australia.
Bio-IT World June 2006 Kevin Davies	HapMap Project Prepares for Phase II Release The official release of the Phase II HapMap data will provide a publicly available trove of information on human genetic variation across populations that will reveal insights into the genetic basis of human disease and individual response to pharmaceuticals.
Bio-IT World June 2006 Eric K. Neumann	Freeing Data, Keeping Structure We have hardly explored how to do a scientific mashup or what it means to take advantage of it. One thing is clear: If it is based on recombinant scientific data, a data description language such as RDF is necessary. Otherwise, the mashups will result in mush, unusable piles of unparsable data with unknown provenance!
CIO June 15, 2006 Grant Gross	Iraq's Virtual Library A group of U.S. scientists, with help from Sun Microsystems and the U.S. government, have launched an online library containing more than 1 million research articles for Iraqi scientists and students.
InternetNews June 13, 2006 Nicholas Carlson	More KML And Bits of Google Earth Google took another step toward its goal to create a "Mirror World" with some improvements to its Google Earth satellite mapping application.
Search Engine Watch June 13, 2006 Greg Sterling	A Real Estate Vertical Search Roundup, Part 2 This concludes a roundup of a number of the most popular new real estate search verticals.
Information Today June 12, 2006 Barbara Brynko	Copyright Clearance Center Introduces Rightsphere for Copyright Compliance The Copyright Clearance Center is rolling out its latest compliance tool, Rightsphere.
Information Today June 12, 2006	Weekly News Digest Web of Science to Add Author Search Tools... TechXtra Offers Free Access to Tech Resources... Information Sources Introduces TecTrends Database... etc.
Search Engine Watch June 8, 2006 Danny Sullivan	Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at the service's growth and how it works.
InternetNews June 7, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Caught in China's Internet Blockade Internet giant Google, which has defended its decision to comply with China's censorship, has discovered that its main search engine has been blocked in most Chinese provinces.
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