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Our Christmas tree has not been decorated yet, but the presents are there: the BMC Bioinformatics paper on userscripts in life sciences, Bioclipse 1.2.0, a long list of blogs to rate, and a very nice overview from Wendy Warr on workflow environments, discussing and comparing different offerings like Pipeline Pilot, Taverna, and KNIME.

Userscripts
The paper on userscripts describes how Greasemonkey scripts can be used to combine different information sources (DOI:10.1186/1471-2105-8-487). A trailer:
Peter et al. have been using this technology for CrystalEye too, but the paper was in a finalizing state when the userscript was announced, unfortunately.

Bioclipse 1.2.0
The other present is the Bioclipse 1.2.0 release, for which the QSAR feature is a great new feature addition (see my blog the other day with an overview of blog items detailing my participation in that feature). Ola et al. have done a great job with the plot functionality, which is very nice to scatter plot calculated descriptors. This release is likely going to be the last one in the Bioclipse 1 series, except for bug fix releases, so, this release also means I can start contributing to the Bioclipse 2 series. Recent items in the Bioclipse blog show a bright future, with project based resource handling, better scripting (R, ruby, JavaScript, BeanShell?).

BTW, we never have presents under the tree; we have Sinterklaas.

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