Which Bioinformatician Do You Follow On Twitter

Question

[Andra Waagmeester]

I mainly use twitter to follow interesting people. @HansRosling being my favorite, but he is not a bioinformatician. So to go short, which bioinformatician is worth following?

[David Quigley]

Looks like a community wiki question to me.

[Andra Waagmeester]

Community wiki it is.

[Simon Cockell]

@David agreed...

Answer 1

[Simon Cockell]

This question has prompted me to pull together a list of BioStars on Twitter:

http://twitter.com/sjcockell/biostars

It's a work in progress, let me know who I've missed...

[Russh]

you can add me to it if you like @dubiousGeek But mostly I tweet about radio shows

[Fred]

Good idea, I (@fredebibs) will subscribe to this list

[Fred]

Good idea, I (@fredebibs) will follow this list

Answer 2

[Pierre Lindenbaum]

By extracting the users' pages:

for I in `seq 1 2166`
do
  echo $I
  curl -s "https://www.biostars.org/u/$I" |\
  grep -i twitter  >> file.txt
done

http://twitter.com/andrew_clegg

http://twitter.com/avsmith

http://twitter.com/bioinfosm

http://twitter.com/brent_p

http://twitter.com/chris_evelo

http://twitter.com/cvillamar

http://twitter.com/delahar

http://twitter.com/d_swan

http://twitter.com/dubiousGeek

http://twitter.com/gingi0

http://twitter.com/jorjial

http://twitter.com/kak9699

http://twitter.com/kshameer

http://twitter.com/larsjuhljensen

http://twitter.com/ma_ko

http://twitter.com/mikechelen

http://twitter.com/naga_rna

http://twitter.com/OmicsKnowmics

http://twitter.com/PhJulien

http://twitter.com/pradeep2005s

http://twitter.com/seouri

http://twitter.com/shinout

http://twitter.com/sjcockell

http://twitter.com/suk211

http://twitter.com/tim_yates

http://twitter.com/tisimpson

http://twitter.com/yokofakun

Answer 3

[Khader Shameer]

I would recommend to search twitter using #bioinformatics, #genomics or related #tags to follow the relevant tweets and tweeps. You can use the official twitter client TweetDeck to search multiple #tags in a single window.

[Mary]

Yeah, this is my strategy, besides a column of people that we at @OpenHelix follow. To see my tweetdeck, you can watch my tip of the week on that: http://blog.openhelix.eu/?p=6591 It was a hard one to do with the tweetdeck changing in real time while recording...but I think it gets the basics.

Answer 4

[Philippe]

Hi,

I mostly follow some biologists/bioinformaticians (some of them active on Biostar) with my twitter account. You can have a look at the little number of people I follow there:

http://twitter.com/#!/PhJulien/following/people

Once you have a small basis of people you follow Twitter generally comes with valuable suggestions of new profile to follow (if you use the web interface).

I'm also interested in this thread since I was looking for more worthy people to follow. =)

Answer 5

[Simon Cockell]

Franklin Award winners on Twitter:

• Jonathan Eisen
• Alex Bateman
• Ewan Birney
• Michael Eisen

Answer 6

[Mary]

I think another useful way to use twitter is to follow resources, like @OmimOrg, @GenomeBrowser, @yeastgenome, @cytoscape, @galaxyproject, @reactome ...

[Laura]

@1000genomes is there aswell

Answer 7

[Casey Bergman]

Here is a curated list to start with: http://twitter.com/#!/dnatimes/bioinformatics-wizards

EDIT:

And another one: http://twitter.com/#!/cass_j/bioinformatics/members