Online methods share insider tricks

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A new breed of websites could help replicate controversial lab results or tricky methods where scientists share and edit each other's laboratory techniques. OpenWetWare, was set up by students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and two other competing sites are starting up, one from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press and the other from the Nature Publishing Group, both of which will feature commissioned protocols, which users will be able to comment on and add on.

Services information, Massachusetts, Services, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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A life online

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An online website on eminent scientist Charles Darwin, 'Darwin Online', was launched on October 19, 2006, by John van Wyhe, a historian of science at the University of Cambridge, UK. The service has made the entire work of Darwin freely available to everyone and it aims to add every edition and translation of Darwin's published work to the website by 2009, the bicentenary of his birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin.

Biological research, Darwin, Charles, Biology, Experimental, Website overview

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First chapter of book of life goes live

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The development of a new website by the Encyclopedia of Life project that aims at providing all the information related to all the species present on the Earth. The design of pages of the website is described.

Biological diversity, Biodiversity, Information services industry

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