Seatte is a great city to live in if you’re interested in new media. My friend Stuart Maxwell has a great post up on how he went about getting into screencasting.
Of course, we’d hope that if you are interested in sharing your screencasts with the life science community bioscreencast would be right on top of the list
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Back when we thought about putting Bioscreencast together, we had a vision of people doing their daily work, realizing that there was something interesting to share, turning on their favorite screencasting app, and then recording a screencast. Today, Michael Pascoe uploaded a screencast that, for me, personifies that vision. In the screencast below, Michael demonstrates how he uses Illiad and Papers to pursue a paperless PhD (If you have a Mac and $42 you HAVE to get this). The screencast is short, it’s simple, and it makes you want to go and get Papers. Perfect!!!
How often have you heard someone say ” I dont know how you look for something in there” . Database querying and search has become an essential skill to possess in this genomic age. Be it PUBMED , FlyBase or the PDB, we all rely on these databases to find our everyday information.
As Jon Udell commented in his article on search strategies, database querying is definitely a skill , and good searchers tend to have deep and hidden reservoirs of tacit skill that they can harness . And, as he says , like many other skills effective search can be learned.
We at Bioscreencast.com believe that screencasts are a good way to capture user-database interactions . It was for this reason that we decided to have a category in our library called “Databases and Biosearch”. Thanks to uploads like the recent one from the PDB , we have user uploaded screencasts that show you how to search databases, ranging from the new Uniprot database , the gaggle proteomics workbench to the Membrane Protein databank .
We hope that the next time you hit on a clever querying strategy or put together a public database, you screencast it for us all to benefit from.
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