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Take That, SciFoo

Apr 28, 2008

Pimm blogger Attila Csordas writes about the attempt by the BioTwitterer community to organize a biology-focused "unconference" that would take place in the Bay Area around the same time as SciFoo Camp. The BioBarCamp conference would bring together life scientists in the areas of biotechnology, personalized genomics and medicine, and bioinformatics. You can also read the transcript of their back-and-forth at Csordas' blog to see Twitter in action.

 

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