Category: Scientific Communication

Where is VirusWorld?

  Virusworld. was hosted since its inception at the Institute for Molecular Virology in 1993/1994 at the dawn of the World Wide Web and was retired on the first week of July 2022. I was the main author and curator of the web site which was started to disseminate virus depictions based on X-ray crystallography …

Every academic should have an ORCID record

ORCID: Open Research and Contributor ID I have a rather unique name and finding my publications in Pubmed is usually not very difficult, even though it is not 100% fail proof. An O.R.C.ID is a unique identifier that some journals now require.In fact just last week I had to provide my ORCID to a journal …

Course for Scientists for Effective and Engaging Scientific Communication Practices

Scientists need to communicate The art of communication is often overlooked in a Scientist career, but it is becoming increasingly important that Scientists learn to communicate at different levels. Telling a story is a powerful way to explain and interest people and there are proven techniques that can help. H. Adam Steinberg is a former …

Google Docs Tutorials

Google Docs is Free Google Docs is a free, web-based document creator system to create and collaborate on online documents in real-time and from any device. The type of documents that can be created can be text, notes, spreadsheet, drawing, slides, and web pages, each with a separate editor. The Wikipedia entry for Google Docs …

Docker saves the day – Roadmaps – rivem

Edit: April 8, 2025 Images were updated to remove the error that presented the roadmap in a mirror image. Docker saves the day! Here is a great example of how Docker can help save a NATURE paper! Summary: Problem: Professor wants to use a specific virology program called rivem (links below.) However, this only works on …