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Comment on How many biological databases have become extinct? by Michael Bell » Revisiting how many databases have become extinct

Michael Bell » Revisiting how many databases have become extinct — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 14:30:33 +0000

[...] approach, as I acknowledged, had a number of limitations. Indeed, a comment by Alex Bateman raised a very good point that I failed to explicitly state — many URLs from [...]

Comment on How many biological databases have become extinct? by Michael Bell

Michael Bell — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 14:06:18 +0000

Hi Alex,

Many thanks for the comment. Nice to get some feedback.

You are right — a large number will be due to URL decay. This is something I should have stated explicitly. Extending the analysis to Google would be a nice idea to try and gather the “true” number.

Thanks for the paper links – I had missed some of these!

Comment on How many biological databases have become extinct? by Alex Bateman

Alex Bateman — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:14:16 +0000

Hi Michael,

You might find some of these papers by Jonathan Wren of interest:
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/19/2127.long
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/20/5/668.long
http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/content/24/11/1381.long

Generally you can find a much larger fraction of the database with a google search. Not so many databases have really gone extinct. This is more a case of URL decay.

Comment on The growth of biological databases by Michael Bell » How many biological databases have become extinct?

Michael Bell » How many biological databases have become extinct? — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:53:29 +0000

[...] my previous post I showed the number of biological databases in existence is growing each year. Here I wish to try [...]

Comment on My experience of presenting at ECCB’12 #eccb12 by Beth Hellen

Beth Hellen — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:39:07 +0000

I was at your talk, thought it was really good. Definitely couldn’t tell you were a novice presenter!

Comment on Animation: visualising change over time in power-law graphs by An Exercise in Irrelevance » Blog Archive » Colour is not enough

An Exercise in Irrelevance » Blog Archive » Colour is not enough — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 15:40:09 +0000

[...] panel display and displays the results very clearly. He has also published the same images online (http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/m.j.bell1/blog/?p=610). In this process, he has managed to achieve with a simple web page what conventional scientific [...]

Comment on Animation: visualising change over time in power-law graphs by Michael Bell » Additional animated power-law graphs

Michael Bell » Additional animated power-law graphs — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 12:44:16 +0000

[...] the previous post I introduced some animated graphs that were produced to aid the analysis of Swiss-Prot and TrEMBL [...]

Comment on Animation: visualising change over time in power-law graphs by mj_bell

mj_bell — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:21:25 +0000

Good point, thanks Colin.

Comment on Animation: visualising change over time in power-law graphs by Colin Gillespie

Colin Gillespie — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:54:44 +0000

In your slower animations you could show the power law alpha values in the top RHS.

Comment on Annotation maturity: Comparison of annotations in new and old sets of UniProtKB entries. by Michael Bell » Annotation maturity: Average entry age within UniProtKB

Michael Bell » Annotation maturity: Average entry age within UniProtKB — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:59:47 +0000

[...] Although viewing entry dates, rather than annotation quality, this conclusion fits with that of our other analyses; the rate of data is outstripping our ability to deal with it. Following on from this, we now wish to look at maturity of annotations within entry sets. This is discussed in the next blog post (link) [...]