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For we are like tree trunks in the snow. In appearance they lie sleekly and a little push should be enough to set them rolling. No, it can't be done, for they are firmly wedded to the ground. But see, even that is only appearance. -- Franz Kafka.
- Special thanks to all the contributors!
- The original MetaBase concept was developed on Bioinformatics.Org as part of the BioNeeds project.
- The BioNeeds project was the result of a failed 'student responsibility' project at the MRC-Dunn Human Nutrition Unit http://www.mrc-dunn.cam.ac.uk/
- MetaBase was 'seeded' with text from the Nucleic Acids Research (NAR) 2007 Database Issue 'Database Summaries' cite by kind permission of Oxford University Press.
- The NAR content was parsed using Perl (http://www.perl.org/) and loaded using the Python WikiPedia Robot Framework (http://pywikipediabot.sourceforge.net/).
- DB wishes to thank Jong Park http://jongpark.net and BiO http://bio.cc/
- Thanks to the Biowiki contents competition http://biowiki.net
The MetaBase project was inspired by BiO.
MetaBase has been implemented using MediaWiki (version 1.19alpha (r111420)) and is currently hosted on BiO.
Search tools
Each 'resource page' generates automatic links to various search engines. For details see the Page data template. Some of the appropriate citations are listed here;
- MEDSUM
- MEDSUM: an online MEDLINE summary tool by Galsworthy, MJ and hosted at the Institute of Biomedical Informatics (IBMI), Faculty of Medicine, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia [1]
- VADLO - Life Sciences Search Engine
- VADLO is an academic, open-access, free search engine created by two biology scientists in Chicago for the Life Sciences and biomedical researchers, educators, students, clinicians and reference librarians. VADLO offers search within five categories: Protocols- for methods, techniques, assays, procedures, reagent recipes, plasmid maps, etc. Online Tools- for calculators, servers, prediction tools, sequence alignment and manipulation tools, primer design etc. Seminars (Powerpoints) - for powerpoint files for presentations, lectures and talks. Databases - for research databases, resources, compilations, lists, information about genes and proteins etc. Software - for bioinformatics codes, scripts, algorithms, executables, and downloadable programs. VADLO has an entertainment aspect too: It displays daily science/research cartoons, called "Life in Research" Cartoons.
