February 11, 2008

Researchers Develop Online Tools for Science Collaborations

By Lila Guterman

Washington

Blogs, wikis, and social-networking sites such as Facebook may get media buzz these days, but for scientists, engineers, and doctors, they are not even on the radar. The most effective tools of the Internet for such people tend to be efforts more narrowly targeted to their needs, such as software that helps geneticists replicate one another's experiments. That was the underlying message of many presentations at the annual conference of the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division of the

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