by Aidan Budd & Holger Dinkel

First Budapest Unseminar in Bioinformatics (BUB1)

An “Unseminar” is a participant-driven meeting, a shorter version of an “unconference” . The content and structure of the events is driven by you! Unlike offering yet-another-seminar (yuck!), an unseminar offers interactivity amongst all participants.

We’ve been running more than twenty unseminars as part of HUB - Heidelberg Unseminars in Bioinformatics which is a registered Club (gemeinnütziger eingetragener Verein in Heidelberg) aiming at fostering communication between scientists in the natural sciences.

Here’s the website for BUP1, and here’s a more detailled plan of the evening…

Please use this piratepad to collect ideas/suggestions/tools…

Outcome:

Here is the list of tools that we came up with:

Apps

  1. Fakegps (send a fake location, prentend to be where you are not) :P
  2. Waterdrinkreminder or aqualert (reminds you to drink enough water)
  3. splitwise (share bills with your friends)
  • Wikiloc (navigation app for hiking)
  • Endnote
  • Mendeley
  • Wordreference (dictionary)
  • pocket or readability or Evernote (collect links of webpages you want to read later)
  • Clue( period tracking app)
  • maps.me (offline google maps)
  • online banking apps
  • save passage (just invented, warns you when you are reading on your phone and are getting too close to a crossroad)
  • Duolingo (language learning app)
  • Runastic (Tracking app for running)
  • NTC (for free nike training club with fancy superexausting excercises)
  • Deutsche Bahn

Websites

  1. PubMed (if it is not in Pubmed search it in wikipedia)
  2. Wikipedia (if it is not in wikipedia search it in google)
  3. Google (if it is not in google it doesn’t exist)
  • Scihub
  • Araport.org
  • rcsb.org (PDB)
  • UCSC Genome Browser
  • Venny 2.1
  • imdb
  • Youtube
  • EBI web tools and databases (UniProt)
  • Genecards
  • Netflix
  • Github
  • STRING
  • GeneMania
  • ProtParam
  • genevestigator
  • pepcalc.org
  • HHPred
  • doodle
  • acix
  • PDBefold
  • Nature.com
  • oligoanalyzer
  • pubmedcentral
  • feedly
  • dropbox
  • 23andme
  • linkedin
  • Researchgate
  • pfam
  • kegg
  • NCBI tools (blast, GEO…)
  • wordle
  • instagram
  • amazon.com

(Software) Tools

  1. Firefox with AdBlocker (hides the naked women)
  2. Text editor
  3. Mail client
  • Microsoft Office (Power Point/Word)
  • Music Player
  • Terminal
  • ImageJ
  • MSA tool
  • MaxQuant
  • Antivirus (for non_mac users)
  • Cytoscape
  • Graphpad Prism
  • R
  • WeTransfer
  • Dropbox/Drive
  • Calender
  • Acrobat Reader
  • Communication tools
  • Torrent client
  • VLC
  • Firefox/Chrome/

Communication Tool

  1. Gmail/email
  2. Mobile phones
  3. Skype/Google Hangaout/Adobe rooms
  4. Whatsapp/text messenger/ sms
  • Facebook
  • Facetime
  • Text
  • Twitter
  • Forums
  • Blogs
  • YouTube
  • iTunes
  • Feedly
  • Telegram
  • Google Calendar (app? or what?)

non-software Tools

  1. a portable battery charger for the mobile phone
  2. Post-Its (yellow and orange) oh and hot-pink’ heart shape
  3. Pen & Paper
  • Polar watch - saves appointments, measures heart rate, says happy birthday
  • Scooter (means of transportation) - makes moving from A to B easy and enjoyable
  • Low-cost flights - flexible commuting (although not good for the environment)
  • a good knife
  • Oil spary - for healthier food with less oil
  • Electronic public transport information table
  • Cash
  • reusable shopping bags