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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
- 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
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:
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.