Clarifying references: Third Meet and Share session of the Medical Communications Special Interest Group

BioLINK Special Interest Group Session on the Future of Scientific Publishing

The BioLINK SIG meeting has been regularly held in association with the ISMB conference (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology—the annual conference of the International Society for Computational Biology) since 2001, focusing on the development and application of resources and tools for biomedical text mining. The SIG (Special Interest Group) is interdisciplinary in nature, and brings toget...

The BASHH HIV Special Interest Group (SIG).

As the previous and current chair of the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) HIV Special Interest Group (SIG), we will summarise the activities of this busy, diverse SIG. We have about 20 members who communicate regularly by email and include trainee, community, nursing and pharmacy representation. The ‘HIV SIG’ is also involved in activities related to hepatitis B and C, work...

Transport-independent group and session management for group communications platforms

With more and more computers gradually changing from isolated, personal tools to networked workstations, group communications is an area of research which has received much attention recently. This paper focuses on a model and the architecture of a system which supports group communications by providing group and session management functionality. The system architecture is related to DNS or X.5...

Clarifying the costs of conflicts of interest.

Special Interest Group Ion-mobility Mass Spectrometry

"Why are we interested in ion mobility?" Ion mobility is not a new technique, but its recent marriage with high-resolution mass spectrometry on a commercial platform has made it possible to combine its separation and characterization capabilities with the power of MS and MS/MS data – the determination of size and shape as well as mass and charge. We are now seeing a rapid growth of applications...