ERC Starting Grants aim to support up-and-coming research leaders who are about to establish or consolidate a proper research team and to start conducting independent research in Europe. The scheme targets promising researchers who have the proven potential of becoming independent research leaders. It will support the creation of excellent new research teams and will strengthen others that have been recently created.

RightField is an open-source tool for adding ontology term selection to Excel spreadsheets. For each annotation field, RightField can specify a range of allowed terms from a chosen ontology (subclasses, individuals or combinations). The resulting spreadsheet presents these terms to the users as a simple drop-down list. This reduces the adoption barrier for using community ontologies as the annotation is made by the scientist that generated the data rather than a third party, and the annotation is collected at the time of data collection.

Digital Library Software, open source.

Systems Biology Models, online software for sharing models

THis is a set of tools that should facilitate discovering relationships across RDF. similarities across RDF data sets.

A semantic company. interesting products.

Broadly Integrated Ontological SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language. Query builder

Great DESIGN

Science and engineering are facing huge increases in data volumes and shifts toward more data-intensive work. The amount of data being produced is rapidly increasing with the development of new sensing and computer technologies, increasing use of computational simulation, and a move toward larger-scale and more interdisciplinary projects. This trend is affecting not just academic research, but also corporate, government, military, and intelligence work as well. The proliferation of new sensors and increasingly powerful processors is set against the relatively static nature of human cognitive capabilities. This “data deluge” presents challenges for conducting collaborative knowledge work and opportunities to provide better computational and organizational support for that work. This workshop will bring together researchers studying various aspects of collaborative data-intensive work in order to understand these challenges and design systems to support the particular needs of these coll

Nature publishing group staff person. good for paper about open vs closed business practices in the publishing industry.

Good for paper regarding open access vs closed business practices.

Good for the open access position regarding closed business practices.