User:Mac

Résumé

science!

Contact Info

mcowell [at] cyber [dot] law [dot] harvard [dot] edu

Role in the Team

Research Assistant, Diagnostic Kits

I am characterizing the R&D process that brings diagnostic kits to market with a particular focus on which steps involve patent (or other IP) activity.

Recent Activity on the Wiki

Special:Contributions/Mac

Weekly Tasks and Results

Understand & document diagnostic kit development pipeline

Complete Glossary of important concepts in Diagnostic Kit space

Resources

I keep some notes in Evernote and then transfer them to the wiki. You can view my ICP evernote collection here

Blogs and News

News

• GEN- Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News: Clinical Research & Diagnostics Channel (http://www.genengnews.com/transmed/)

  Content includes News, Articles, Tutorials, & Conferences/Meetings

Blogs

• PGx News - Information Portal for Pharmacogenomics (http://www.pgxnews.org/web/)

  Pharmacogenomics news, updated daily

Interviews

• Jason Bobe
• Jason Kelly?
• Jim Hardy
• Andrew Hessel
• Joseph Jackson
• Mark Redmond (via LinkedIn)

Extended Literature Review

I am still refining my literature organizational system, but basically it involves 3 steps:

• search (find literature from google, existing references, etc; get fulltext)
• triage (select signal from noise; skim pdfs in extended collection for useful/relevant papers)
• review (annotate & highlight selected papers and incorporate into the Diagnostic Kits Bibliography

In particular, I am still looking for the perfect solution for organizing the triage step. I've tried:

• Zotero
• Mendeley
• Papers.

I like using papers the most overall, I like how effortless grabbing citations is with Zotero, and I like how Mendeley can synchronize PDFs between multiple computers and collaborators. Other Notes:

• I'm afraid we're making future work for ourselves by not being mindful of collecting metadata when we list a citation in our wiki bibliographies, which are currently plaintext. I have a vision of us finishing the project and generating a SIMILE citeline eventually. Alas.
• Zotero can convert references into the mediawiki citation format by drag and drop, but the family of cite templates must be installed in mediawiki; see my notes on how to install the cite templates.

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