Devora Cohen-Karni from NEB/E3 attended the Biology of Genomes meeting last week at Cold Spring Harbor and had a great time interacting with scientists, listening to talks, and covering it via Twitter. We archived the 1700+ tweets from the meeting using the #bg2011 hashtag, and fed them into Tagxedo to look for trends via a word cloud, the image is shown above (click to enlarge). The top five words were genome, @dgmacarthur, talk, sequencing, and genes. Top five Twitterers were @dgmacarthur, @michaelhoffman, @assemblathon, @genome_gov and @larry_parnell (@lukejostins was retweeted a lot, that’s why he shows up in cloud). For a small meeting, 1700 Tweets is impressive, and @kbradnam wrote a nice post about the conversations that resulted. Word clouds are a nice way to understand this diverse type of content, we hope you enjoy it!
Tweet Word Cloud from the Biology of Genomes Meeting #bg2011
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It was a great meeting (my first time at CSHL), and as mentioned, a great twitter interaction as well. A lot of talks about epigenetics, experimental and computational. A few reports/blogs regarding Biology of Genomes meeting: @lukejostins wrote a blog post for each day of the meeting, last one can be found here: http://bit.ly/lcm5KC and @matthewherper: Beating Moore’s Law Since January 2008! http://ow.ly/4U4u8 . Following #bg2011 hashtag yields pointers to resources and notes to published material.