Welcome to Web 2.0

Bioinformatics researchers should learn web development skills, says this post at Web 2.0 and Semantic Web for Bioinformatics. So far, genomic datasets are downloaded, set up locally, and then analyzed in what could be considered a mashup, but it won't always be like that. Agbiotec predicts that within five years, bioinformatics institutions will start to take a Web 2.0 approach. "And for that I refer you to Amazon Web Services, where bioinformaticians can build their own NCBI running on Rails and sell it to other Web 2.0-minded scientists, who understand the (added) value of an inter-operable web of data," writes Agbiotec.