How to Stay Current in Bioinformatics/Genomics by Stephen Turner.
From the post:
A few folks have asked me how I get my news and stay on top of what’s going on in my field, so I thought I’d share my strategy. With so many sources of information begging for your attention, the difficulty is not necessarily finding what’s interesting, but filtering out what isn’t. What you don’t read is just as important as what you do, so when it comes to things like RSS, Twitter, and especially e-mail, it’s essential to filter out sources where the content consistently fails to be relevant or capture your interest. I run a bioinformatics core, so I’m more broadly interested in applied methodology and study design rather than any particular phenotype, model system, disease, or method. With that in mind, here’s how I stay current with things that are relevant to me. Please leave comments with what you’re reading and what you find useful that I omitted here.
Here is a concrete example of the information feeds used to stay current on bioinformatics/genomics.
A topic map mantra has been: “All the information about a subject in one place.”
Should that change to: “Current information about subject(s) ….,” rather than aggregation, topic maps as a filtering strategy?
I think of filters as “subtractive” but that is only one view of filtering.
Can have “additive” filters as well.
Take a look at the information feeds Stephen is using.
Would you use topic maps as “additive” or “subtractive” filters?