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!