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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Use Mendeley to list your publications on your personal homepage

I was updating/creating my personal website a little while ago and was looking for a good method to keep my "Publications" page updated without having to edit it manually.
At first I played around with using Exhibit. This was kind of fun and allowed my publications to be sorted in all kinds of ways and exported in lots of formats.However, this method seemed like overkill (might be more useful if I had hundreds of publications....maybe one day but not today), and required that I update a .bib file every time I had to add a publication.

Then I noticed that my Mendeley profile has a nicely formatted page of my publications. Unfortunately, Mendeley doesn't yet provide html code to embed this on your own page, there is a slight workaround.
  1. In your Mendeley software client create a new collection and name it "Publications" (you can rename this later if need be).
  2. Add your publications to this new collection. Note!! The publications need to be added from oldest to newest one at a time. This is because Mendeley orders the publications by the date they were added to the collection (and not by pub. date).
  3. Right-click->Edit Settings, then under "Collection Access" choose "Public - visible to everyone". Then click "Apply and Sync".
  4. Go to the settings again for the collection and follow the web link to the collection online.
  5. In the upper right click on "Embed on other websites". You can customize the size and the color if you want. Then copy the html code to your website, blog, etc.
  6. That's it! When you have a publication to add just add it to your new "publications" collection, sync, and now your personal page is updated as well.
The default settings will result in your publications looking like this:

Publications is a group in Biological Sciences on Mendeley.



For my personal website I changed the color and made it a bit larger so it looks like this.

Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Looking for a bioinformatics expert?

What I have to offer:
  • A balanced background in both biology (BSc) and computer science (BCS)
  • Soon to be completed PhD
  • Extensive research experience in bioinformatics, genomics, phylogenetics/phylogenomics, evolution, and bacteria pathogenesis
  • Some previous research experience in medical imaging, ontology development, and metagenomics
  • An impressive publishing record (7 papers, 3 first authors, 2 more first authors under review)
  • Solid computational skills including Perl programming, database design (MySQL), parallel programming, and web design (PHP & JavaScript)
  • Good communication and social skills
  • More information
What I am looking for:
  • Post-doc or job (academic or industrial)
  • Preferably, a position where I have some significant manager or leadership responsibilities
  • Geographically interested in north eastern parts of North America (Ottawa down to New York), but would entertain positions elsewhere in N.A.
I didn't put any limitations on research interests, since I am open to many areas. However, anything having to due with the human microbiome project, human-bacteria interactions, or metagenomics would be of particular interest.

Please email me if you are interested or if you have suggestions on some good openings.