I think that for a professional is very important to follow blogs focused on his own speciality, it is a good way to learn without too much effort and to stay updated. Which bioinformatics-related blogs do you usually read?
note: there is a similar question posted on stackoverflow.
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Moreover, I also find useful to follow the blogs from many bioinformatics services or databases:
mine of course ! :-) http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com
See also: Bioinformatics blogs on Nature-blogs: http://blogs.nature.com/blogs?tags=bioinformatics
And the life-scientists group on FriendFeed: http://friendfeed.com/the-life-scientists
Shameless plug for the bioinformatics subreddit (of which I am a moderator).
There are so many great blogs out there, I love Openhelix blog, and many others already listed. But reading all blogs takes ages, though I have everything fed into my Google Reader.
That's the reason why last week we started our new community-based project biotricks.net, which is a meta-blog linking out to interesting tips, tricks, and tools for bioinformaticians but also hosts own articles, scripts, code lines, etc.
At the moment it is quite basic, but like BioStar it will become more interesting the more people are using it.
So please support and contribute to this project. Thanks.
I linked it on the bioinformatics subreddit (http://redd.it/i64rn). Hopefully it will get some exposure there. Success with the project!
A friend of mine is a very active blogger in bioinformatics. This is his blog site
He has also complied a list of bioinformatics and chemo informatics blogs which are very popular. some of you might be interested in it.
30+ Blogs about Bioinformatics and Chemoinformatics Programming
Here is one that I follow, but I'm interested in adding more blogs to my feed:
Getting genetics done, covers more than just bioinformatics and is a bit heavy on the GWAS but overall is a well-done blog.
Maybe not The Greatest but these few are covering next gen sequencing:
Shameless plug for the OpenHelix blog. We talk about databases and resources in genomics/bioinformatics for the end user/experimental biologist, have tips of the week, etc.
In addition to some mentioned above, I like business|bytes|genes|molecules
Very large list of bioinformatics blogs from the now defunct Nodalpoint wiki
I like the OpenHelix Blog. :D
A lot has been written above, so I'll add something different. One reason to follow a blog is to be a part of the conversation or simply to "listen in." This is why we go to conferences. And so, I think that one should also be on Twitter in order to do the same - listen and add to the conversation. Clearly, Twitter and a blog are different formats and come to you in different ways, but they are both useful tools in getting you connected to other people and their ideas, as well as putting yourself into the conversation.
@larry_parnell varigenome.blogspot.com
Well, more than "favourite" blog I can list the ones I like (this is, the ones that passed the filter and I'm still following). Apart from Giovanni's and Pierre's, and other more technical blogs already mentioned, I'm interested in the sequencing technologies, personal genomes and publication ethics. This is then my small list:
http://nsaunders.wordpress.com/ - Bioinformatics and other stuff
http://cameronneylon.net/ - On communicating science
http://www.genomesunzipped.org/ - On personalized Genomics
Can't help to add a shameless plug to our group's blog on Computational OncoGenomics: http://bg.upf.edu/blog/
A few not mentioned yet here that are in my google reader are:
http://saaientist.blogspot.com/
Hi, I found some interesting posts on http://www.biotricks.net/ The blog is quite new, and there are many interesting guides, for beginners and the curious. Definitively will keep following it!
Weblog on Bioinformatics, Genome Science, Next Generation Sequencing
I just remembered this--there's a good thread on blogs in this arena from the SEQanswers forum:
I am quite keen of some of the in-depth blogs about metabolomics, such as this blog by Gilleain around metabolite identification.
My little contribution to the Bioinformatics Field: http://www.bioinformatics.fr
As WoA Nicely put: the Macromolecular Modeling Blog other related blogs I read (but don't write at): sort of ranked by relevance to structural bioinformatics:
Some update more routinely than others.. What other computational structural biology blogs you know ?
http://www.biotricks.net/ is definitely worthwhile to try.
We started a blog at http://www.homolog.us to write on transcriptomics and next-gen sequencing. Here is a brief description of our objectives.
This one has just started but contains interesting media files and source code:
I like Getting Genetics Done available here: http://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.com/
Every thing and anything related to Bioinformatics ...Jobs in Bioinformatics, Bio Java, Bio Ruby, Sequencing, Free Downloads, Video tutorials
Biocoders.net is actually mine, additionnaly to a being a blog i am using it as a strong online collaboration tool, synchronizing my social networks with it, it is :
Facebook Linkedin Twitter Github Sourcefoge
Like all in one web app.
Rad
Here is what I read on a regular basis:
http://core-genomics.blogspot.com - "personal blog written by James Hadfield who runs a Genomics core facility Cambridge" - lots of interesting technical details about next-generation sequencing
http://massgenomics.org - medical genomics blog by Dan Koboldt, a staff scientist at the Genome Institute at Washington University
http://www.genomesunzipped.org - popular blog run by several genomics researchers
http://blog.openhelix.eu - as mentioned in other responses, this covers tutorials and FAQs for common bioinformatics tools
http://gettinggeneticsdone.blogspot.com - as mentioned in other responses, a well-maintained blog written mostly by Stephen Turner (Bioinformatics Core director at University of Virginia)
Also, I am baised, but I also have my own blog:
http://cdwscience.blogspot.com - My Biomedical Informatics Blog
Thank you for your links. Note that we did another version of this discussion in 2011 (Your favorite bioinformatics blogs (October 2011) ). Maybe we should do another for 2013.
I've never added mine, which is bioinfoblog.it Topics: bioinformatics best practices, planning, genetics, R, dplyr, ontology enrichment, bioinformatics in the pharma industry.
More for viruses: Bioinformatics I/O - Tips && tricks from a cluster of bioinformaticians: http://bioinformatics.cvr.ac.uk/blog/
My bioinformatics blog: https://www.dna-ghost.com/. Welcome to comment. It covers bioinformatics and cancer genomics.
It can't be regarded as blog, but it's hub of bioinformatics software and databases https://omictools.com/.
My preferences are:
All these blogs are free and I find them very useful.
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ok, I have changed the title to the plural form: "blogs" instead of "blog". So, provide us all your favorite links! :-)
Why is this tagged off-topic? Can somebody explain this, please.