Unseminar
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
- Fakegps (send a fake location, prentend to be where you are not) :P
- Waterdrinkreminder or aqualert (reminds you to drink enough water)
- 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
- PubMed (if it is not in Pubmed search it in wikipedia)
- Wikipedia (if it is not in wikipedia search it in google)
- 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
- Researchgate
- pfam
- kegg
- NCBI tools (blast, GEO…)
- wordle
- amazon.com
(Software) Tools
- Firefox with AdBlocker (hides the naked women)
- Text editor
- 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
- Gmail/email
- Mobile phones
- Skype/Google Hangaout/Adobe rooms
- Whatsapp/text messenger/ sms
- Facetime
- Text
- Forums
- Blogs
- YouTube
- iTunes
- Feedly
- Telegram
- Google Calendar (app? or what?)
non-software Tools
- a portable battery charger for the mobile phone
- Post-Its (yellow and orange) oh and hot-pink’ heart shape
- 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