An ambitious EC-funded research initiative on epigenetics advancing towards systems biology

How to organize a meeting

Writed by Zachary Gurard Levin

The Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase)

The new Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) is a collaborative effort designed to accelerate our understanding of microbes, microbial communities, and plants. It will be a community-driven, extensible and scalable open-source software framework and application system. KBase will offer free and open access to data, models and simulations, enabling scientists and researchers to build new knowledge and share their findings.

Tutorial on best practices for writing code with reproducibility in mind

The examples are computational neuroscience oriented, but the observations and advice should apply to any scientific computing area. He makes the important point that the lack of reproducibility of many results can seriously damage the field's credibility (cf. "Climategate" in climate science) as well as hindering scientific progress.
(Link to blog explaining the importance of reproducibility)

Author Guidelines

European Association of Science Editors NEW 2012 guidelines on writing scientific papers, available in 20 languages.

English Communication for Scientists

It is a brief guide on how to communicate more effectively in English, no matter how much previous experience you have, from Nature's Scitable.

How you write matter

Science Careers Blog, 19 July 2012

Science Careers blog

Science Careers blog on "Peer Review Guide" for early career researchers

Beginnings: Writing your first science paper

published at Soapbox Science Nature Blog, 27 Jul 2012

Beginnings: How to write your first grant proposal

published at Soapbox Science Nature Blog, 31 Jul 2012

A bank of phrases

... to help you with tasks such as:

• establish the importance of the topic
• highlight a problem in the field
• highlight a controversy
• highlight a knowledge gap
• focus, aim, argument...