The European Union has awarded 8.3 million Euros to the EMBRACE Network of Excellence program. "EMBRACE" stands for "European Model for Bioinformatics Research and Community Education". From the EMBRACE web site: 'The objective of EMBRACE is to draw together a wide group of experts throughout Europe who are involved in the use of information technology in the biomolecular sciences. The EMBRACE Network of Excellence will optimise informatics and information exploitation by pure and applied biological scientists in both the academic and commercial sectors. The network will work to integrate the major databases and software tools in bioinformatics, using existing methods and emerging Grid service technologies.'
From the February issue of Scientific Computing Newsline: 'The objective of the EMBRACE initiative is to enable providers of life science data to create searchable interfaces to their databases that conform to a common set of standards. By applying this method to Europe's largest and most widely-used biomolecular databases, the consortium hopes to maximise the access to and value of these resources. "Many elegant and powerful computational biology tools are under-utilised," said consortium member Erik Bongcam-Rudloff from Sweden's University of Uppsala. "EMBRACE will allow us to unlock their potential by standardising access to them." See: http://www.ebi.ac.uk and http://www.embl.de.'
Posted by
Peter Suber at 2/28/2005 05:52:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
I recommend the OA tracking project (OATP) as the best way to stay on top of new OA developments. You can read the OATP feed on a blog-like web page or subscribe to it by RSS, email, or Twitter. You can also help build the feed by tagging new developments you encounter.
