Carrie Iwema
Carrie is an Information Specialist in Molecular Biology for the Health Sciences Library System at the University of Pittsburgh. She has a PhD in Neuroscience and a Masters in Library Science.
Recent Articles By Carrie
Get PDFs ASAP with Pubget
by Carrie on June 25, 2009
After quite a long hiatus (which included a conference in Hawaii, whoo hoo!), I’m back to highlight a cool and relatively new search engine for scientific literature that is going to make you squeal with glee (ok, it (read on...)
A Video is Worth a Million Words
by Carrie on May 6, 2009
If a picture is worth a thousand words then video and audiovisual presentations must be worth millions.
So Jing, a free piece of software that allows users to easily create annotated visual communications, should be an (read on...)
What is Your Favorite Gene?
by Carrie on March 24, 2009
Today I'm going to tell you about another new genetics resource that's only been available for a couple of months.
This gem is "YFG (Your Favorite Gene) powered by Ingenuity� and it's freely available thanks to a (read on...)
Navigating the sea of human genetics, Part II
by Carrie on March 3, 2009
Avast, me hearties, I’m back with Part II of our exploration of the HuGE Navigator. To get up to speed, be sure to check out Part I.
In Part II I’m going to go over the HuGEtools, which are used to mine the human (read on...)
Navigating the Sea of Human Genetics, Part I
by Carrie on February 18, 2009
Ahoy mateys!
At my workplace we’ve recently become EXTREMELY excited about a resource called the HuGE Navigator. It’s so great that it’s going to take me a couple of articles to highlight its features. Hop (read on...)
Biology + Computers + Education
by Carrie on February 10, 2009
I just finished reading an Opinion article by Dr. Lincoln D Stein in Genome Biology entitled �Bioinformatics: alive and kicking� which inspired me to do some sharing.
No, I’m not going to start a debate on (read on...)
From the Lab to the Library…
by Carrie on February 2, 2009
This may be a familiar story for some of you. I started my PhD program in Neuroscience full of hope and excited about where my future would take me.
Like many of you, I assumed I would follow the traditional path—grad (read on...)
Taming the Data Stampede with Wikis
by Carrie on January 26, 2009
Since you’re a Bitesize Bio reader, you’re well aware that there is an abundance of both broad and specialized bioinformatics tools freely available for researchers—if you know where and how to find (read on...)
Be A Bio-Rockstar with ClusterMed
by Carrie on January 14, 2009
Back in October, Nick wrote about the scientific literature searching resource GoPubMed. Today I want to introduce all of you to another rocking PubMed search engine called ClusterMed.
Freely provided by Vivisimo, Inc. (read on...)
Free Online Bioinformatics Tools
by Carrie on January 6, 2009
In recognition of a fresh new year and a fresh new direction for Bitesize Bio, I thought I’d start my tenure as the fresh new Bioinformatics �guru� by introducing you to a handful of websites that will help you (read on...)
