L’estampe et la commande publique

C’est dans le très beau domaine de Vizille que se situe le château qui abrite depuis 1984 le musée de la Révolution française. Créé à l’initiative du Conseil général de l’Isère, propriétaire des lieux depuis 1973, dans la perspective des célébrations des bicentenaires successifs de l’assemblée de Vizille en 1988 et de la Révolution française en 1989, le musée a su par-delà ces commémorations fondatrices s’imposer au fil des années comme un lieu de référence internationale sur cette période et..

Tools and data services registry: a community effort to document bioinformatics resources

Life sciences are yielding huge data sets that underpin scientific discoveries fundamental to improvement in human health, agriculture and the environment. In support of these discoveries, a plethora of databases and tools are deployed, in technically complex and diverse implementations, across a spectrum of scientific disciplines. The corpus of documentation of these resources is fragmented across the Web, with much redundancy, and has lacked a common standard of information. The outcome is that scientists must often struggle to find, understand, compare and use the best resources for the task at hand. Here we present a community-driven curation effort, supported by ELIXIR—the European infrastructure for biological information—that aspires to a comprehensive and consistent registry of information about bioinformatics resources. The sustainable upkeep of this Tools and Data Services Registry is assured by a curation effort driven by and tailored to local needs, and shared amongst a network of engaged partners. As of November 2015, the registry includes 1785 resources, with depositions from 126 individual registrations including 52 institutional providers and 74 individuals. With community support, the registry can become a standard for dissemination of information about bioinformatics resources: we welcome everyone to join us in this common endeavour. The registry is freely available at https://bio.tools