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Many fascinating new developments in the area bowed stringed instruments have been developed in recent years. However, the majority of these new applications are either not well known, used or considered in a broader context by their target users. The necessary exchange between the world of developers and the players is rather limited. A group of performers, researchers, instrument developers a...

Reports of the demise of the "user" have been greatly exaggerated: Dervin's Sense-Making and the methodological resuscitation of the user -- looking backwards, looking forward Sponsored by SIG/USE and SIG/HFIS

Enhancing a web-based community: the case of SIG-GLUE

The expansion of the web has reached outrageous proportions with the number of web communities existing and the number of those being created daily increasing dramatically. To parallel this phenomenon is the trend nowadays of mobile phone services. One of the most representative is the case of Greece, where in a period of five years about five million people subscribed for a telephone number fo...

Network Biology SIG 2011 Abstracts

Anand, Praveen – “Proteome-wide binding site network analysis of M. tuberculosis” (Panel) Nagasuma Chandra and Praveen Anand. Indian Institute of Science, India. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, causative agent of tuberculosis claims 4700 lives everyday. Special traits of the bacteria such as dormancy, ability to quickly take-over immunocompromised hosts and resistance adds to the complexity of the ...

Summary of the BioLINK SIG

The ISMB Special Interest Group on Linking Literature, Information and Knowledge for Biology (BioLINK) organized a one-day workshop at ISMB/ECCB 2013 in Berlin, Germany. The theme of the workshop was “Roles for text mining in biomedical knowledge discovery and translational medicine”. This summary reviews the outcomes of the workshop. Meeting themes included concept annotation methods and appli...