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updated by Giovanni M Dall'Olio Giovanni M Dall'Olio • written by Zach Stednick Zach Stednick

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None. I use RSS where it exists and nothing where it does not. I also find that it is more efficient to search for specific topics as and when they occur to me, than it is to receive a continuous stream of noise in the hope that some of it might be useful.

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written by Neilfws Neilfws

Agree - I find sites like this replacing the old mailing lists from the help point of view since they have better archiving and tagging of answers. For some more established pieces of software I still find the mailing lists useful for big announcements. It is a different way of communicating.

However, I would also suggest that local mailing lists for finding out about seminars in your building, department, uni, city are useful.

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written by Niallhaslam Niallhaslam

Most of the lists at Bioinformatics.com, EvolDir, Bioconductor's list, PAUP, MrBayes, Mesquite and some others that I might receive one email per year.

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written by Paulo Nuin Paulo Nuin

Evoldir is good, and it always seems to mention interesting research being done by people I never would have looked at.

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written by Zach Stednick Zach Stednick

And it is maintained with home made software, and user insertion is done manually.

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written by Paulo Nuin Paulo Nuin

The BioConductor list is a great resource, couldn't be without it

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written by User 59 User 59

samtools, maq, bwa, etc... just because there is no rss feeds for those lists hosted by sourceforge :-(

The general mailing list for dbsnp (NCBI), pubmed (NCBI), genome-announce (UCSC), etc... : usefulto know what is new.

The french bioinfo mailing list is another good resource http://listes.sfbi.fr/wws/info/bioinfo . It is a french list but most messages ( job offers, meetings & conferences, etc... ) are in english.

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written by Pierre Lindenbaum Pierre Lindenbaum

Yep sfbi list is very good ! Lot's of conferences, job offer etc

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written by Nico Nico

I tried to subscribe to R-help but that was overwhelming and I felt it was much easier to search the archives instead. I have been subscribing to bioconductor and while that is also a very active listserve, its been quite helpful.

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written by Zach Stednick Zach Stednick

Just a reminder: this site structure is not really a discussion forum., at least in the answers. All discussions should be limited to the answers' comments.

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written by Paulo Nuin Paulo Nuin
  • EMBOSS mailing listy
  • Python Italia
  • networkx-discuss (networkx is a python module for graphs/networks)
  • biopython, -users and -dev (python module for bioinfo)
  • pygr (another python module for bioinfo)
  • cytoscape (java program to visualize networks)
  • mrbayes (even if I don't use the program anymore)
  • ggplot2-discuss (ggplot2 is an R package for data visualization)
  • Bio-software
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