Foldit game
28/02/2012
This work is not completly related to molecular visualization nevertheless, it is impossible for me to not present it. Stop playing to World of Warcraft and other MMORPG and download Foldit: a multiplayer freely available online 3D puzzle to solve protein structure. It has already demonstrate that collaboration between players (who can have no knowledge in biochemistry) leads to impressive results (see here, here or here).
E.O. Wilson's Life on Earth
24/02/2012
A very nice iBook with wonderful illustrations. unfortunately, for the moment, you need to have a US iTunes account to read it.. I hope that it will be available soon for the entire world. The iTunes link here
Ten Simple rules
15/10/2011
It is a collection of small articles published by PLoS Computational Biology. Even if these articles are not completely related to visualization, it is a really good source of tips for scientific work, such as how to create a good poster, How to make good collaborations, How to write a grant proposal, etc ... More info. here
Bang Wong's Point of View
14/10/2011
The Journal Nature Methods publishes each month a column from Bang Wong, creative director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In these columns Bang Wong presents fundamental aspects of visual presentation/visualization and give tips to create effective presentation. More info Here
Several pictures from the Bang Wong’s Point of View articles
Visualizing data a real challenge
14/10/2011
Recent papers dealt with the visualization problem. One can cite the Nature Methods Special Issue [see here] published in concordance with the first VizBi Conference (more infos conferences part).
It is also interesting to see the recent Science Issue on « dealing with data » (Vol. 331, Issue 6018, Feb 2011 [see here]). Especially the paper entitled : « Changing the Equation on Scientific Data Visualization » [see here]
