What Science/Bioinformatics Magazines Do You Read? 16
Eric asks: "I am a
software developer getting acclimated to the bioinformatics space by
reading through introductory texts like 'Genome : The Autobiography
of a Species in 23 Chapters' by Matt Ridley, 'Genomes' by T.A. Brown,
and bio journals. I find these sources to be exceptionally
interesting but frequently the information is too detailed or too
light for my purposes. I think the ideal information would come from
a monthly magazine or online forum (like Slashdot) that is geared
towards bright non-biologist computery folk (think Dr. Dobbs with an
emphasis on computational biology -- light but definitely not fluff).
I am particularly interested in new discoveries, research techniques,
and experiments in this space. I am also budget constrained, and only
have $100 a year set aside to access this kind of material. Does
something like this exist, if so which ones do you recommend?" I
think this question serves as a fine follow-up to our last question on
Bioinformatics, may I suggest yet
another
starting point for those interested in this subject?
BioInformatics Magazine (Score:2)
If you didn't find this, which means you didn't try google, then why are you asking Slashdot?
I'm an idiot (Score:2)
But I don't think you're going to find what you're looking for. Intermediate publications like Dr. Dobbs exist in CS because there's such a huge market of "practical" computer programmers. And the articles in BioInformatics aren't exactly incomprehensible.
Re:intermediate publications (Score:1, Troll)
As such, you either get Journals, Textbooks, or Fluff.
is it that big of a field? (Score:2)
Re:is it that big of a field? (Score:1)
Medical library (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:Medical library (Score:1)
Do slashdotters do science? (Score:2, Offtopic)
As to what I read... I enjoy New Scientist (scientifiction) when I can get my hands on it, almost always read Scientific American, glance through Science to see if theirs something I might understand (excellent editorials). I'm also getting the email summary of Nature, and occasionally follow the links to their website. Oh, I also enjoy Natural History though it lacks something since since Stephen Jay Gould stopped writing his column.
Re:Do slashdotters do science? (Score:1)
Re:Do slashdotters do science? (Score:1)
Re:Do slashdotters do science? (Score:3, Informative)
I've noticed for some time now that articles about science have by far the lowest response rate on slashdot. For example, Designing An Astrophysical Virtual Observatory [slashdot.org] and Space Station Gets A Blanket [slashdot.org] got only 4 comments each, and none moderated up to my normal reading level. More typically a science article gets 20-30 comments, compared to the 100-200 comments on other topics. Anybody understand why?
I would imagine that this is because the science articles are in general not on the front page. You either have to go to the Science [slashdot.org] section, or configure your preferences to put those articles on the front page. For this reason they get a much smaller number of viewers. I would like to know exactly what criteria they use to determine if a story goes on the front page or relegated to only being shown in a section.
Re:Do slashdotters do science? (Score:1)
I suspect the big problem with these topics are two or three fold: I suspect a lot of people are interested, but don't know a lot about some of the topics (admittedly, this is slashdot, but still). I suspect the frontpage issue (that others brought up). I suspect that it isn't quite as controversial as other things, like MS, encryption, fair-use, cloning, etc.
Wish I had a little more to contribute regarding BioInformatics....
science magazine (Score:1)
not too heavy... not too light... just right..... (Score:1)