Comments on: New tools for biologists, on the computer and the iPhone http://cshbenchmarks.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/new-tools-for-biologists-on-the-computer-and-the-iphone/ The Latest from CSHL Press Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:07:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: David Crotty http://cshbenchmarks.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/new-tools-for-biologists-on-the-computer-and-the-iphone/#comment-283 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 19:08:38 +0000 http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/?p=584#comment-283 Good point Richard. I tend to be a bit myopic, given the nature of the journal that I run. I haven’t used the PubMed app, so don’t know if it offers anything more useful than a web-based search on PubMed. But I can see something like Papers being really handy in a seminar, when you’re trying to recall the details of a paper you know that might support or refute the speaker’s hypothesis.

]]> By: Richard http://cshbenchmarks.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/new-tools-for-biologists-on-the-computer-and-the-iphone/#comment-282 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:59:47 +0000 http://www.cshblogs.org/cshprotocols/?p=584#comment-282 David,

I agree with you on several points. Some of the apps, like how to make solutions, are really not useful for working scientists, due to possibly having to replace a very expensive iPhone.

But some of the others can be useful for a researcher in other settings where a lab top may be hard to use. For instance, a nice app to search PubMed can come in handy during a seminar why I might want to check up on some of the presented data. Then something like Evernote lets me make a quick note of that info that I can access from any other computer.

So the benefits come from non-lab settings, at least for me. The iPhone app I want is one for Fold-it. That would be awesome! But then I was a protein engineer in a former life.

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