matterhacker

There was an interesting report (subscription required for non-academics) in Nature today about networking sites for scientists. They mentioned one really interesting site called myexperiment.org. Basically it’s like instructables.com, but for scientists. It has “workflows” that scientists can exchange and tag. These workflows detail the procedures for say protocols you might perform in a bio experiment or the steps to follow to carry out a particular data analysis technique. Pretty cool idea.  The Nature report also mentioned another site nanohub.org, a NSF funded web resource for simulation tools relating to nanotechnology.  Lots of interesting nano-related tutorials and other resources for self-study there.