Biogang:Projects/Twitteromics

Twitteromics

Using Twitter for building a biological database based on http://twitter.com See this post:


 * http://plindenbaum.blogspot.com/2008/12/idea-twitter-as-tool-to-build-protein.html

Motivation

 * It's fun :-)
 * information can be filtered including/discarding the holder of the account on tweeter.

Examples
Two proteins interact @anaccount gi:41019505 MI:0407 gi:255458 Add a reference to this interaction @anaccount twitter:1058290564 anotherprefix:has_reference pmid:9755181

Todo

 * creating an account
 * defining the namespaces
 * writing a specification
 * call for participation
 * build the tools (exporting, queries...)
 * write a paper!