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Introduction
shawn edited this page Feb 1, 2015
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Welcome to the Need-A-Catchy-Name wiki!
for beginners to learn the standard analysis work-flow for a certain task; for intermediate level bioinformatician to share their simple scripts, their newly-developed software; for users to communicate the challenges they've had in their work; inspire researchers by sharing related analysis methods.
- Reading a paper: literature is fragmented, some outdated (obsoleted), redundant (paper in the same field). You do a lot of reading, but gaining very little useful knowledge.
- Google: Works well only if you know what you are looking for. Something takes quite a bit of search until you find the right thing. And there is no guarantee that the material you read or watch (video tutorials) is the most current, comprehensive.
- Forums like SeqAnswers and Biostars: It is question-oriented. You have a question, get the answer and that's all. It is poorly structured . We need a structured wiki to navigate through for newbies, making it easier for beginner ( everyone has to pass through this phase) to get themselves familiarized with the field and dive deep with least "google" effort to look for appropriate material.
- A well-maintained wiki can worth a dozen review paper. It will provide the most current knowledge in the field, especially useful for young and quickly-developing fields such as bioinformatics. Internet has entirely changed the way knowledge is communicated, we should take advantage of this and share and communicate our findings efficiently, not sticking to the old way of simply aiming at publishing a "well-refined-hypothesis-driven" paper.
- Tools and script repository: help you make the decision to choose which tool to analyze your data; save your time in writing the code that perform certain common tasks.