Only with the adquisition of meaning we adquire knowledge. We briefly explain here an approach to use and link nanopublications (i. e., a linked data format for scholarly data publishing) as a unifying framework to represent knowledge in a semantic way.…
Should peer review stop being anonymous? Inspired by Arthur Schopenhauer’s "On authorship and style", I now sign my reviews. I would like to share here some excerpts on anonymity in literary journals from this memorable essay.…
We do not need powerful desktop computers in our lab, just single connection points in the cloud. Learn how to build a silent, energy-efficient, and dual display workspace.…
The Ontology for Avida project is developing an integrated vocabulary for the description of the most widely used computational approach for performing experimental evolution on digital organisms.…
Getting your bibliographic references from DOIs, appropriately formatted to the journal you are planning to submit your manuscript.…
You should create a persistent address for sharing files with your colleagues on the web when you are not sure about where they will be located in your server.…
Learn how to use Docker's container registry (Doker Hub) to find official images and host your own for public or private use.…
Docker is a container of software that includes everything needed for an application to run isolated from the operating system. In this post we will walk you through the installation process.…
Zenodo is a general-purpose open-access repository that assign a persistent digital object identifier (DOI) to any research digital material. We show how to create a release of a repository stored in GitHub and upload it into Zenodo.…
Digital coevolution between hosts and parasites resembles the coevolutionary dynamics among bacteria and phages. By following this tutorial you will be able to set up and run coevolutionary experiments in Avida (i.e., the most widely-used software platform for studying evolution in action).…
