title: Sociomics! Using the IssueCrawler to map, monitor and engage with the global proteomics research network.
abstract: We invite comment upon an experiment to locate proteomics on the WWW using a software tool called the IssueCrawler. We call our research "sociomics" because, like the bioscience omics, it is a semi-automated, computerised approach to the global analysis of data, whose computerised results can be integrated towards the development of a new "systems sociology" approach to the study of society. Our findings are that proteomics on the web is a scale-free network whose nodes display considerable "dynamic range".
authors: Economic and Social Research Council Centre for Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics, Cardiff University, 6 Museum Place, Cardiff CF10 3BG, Wales, UK. mcnallyr@cf.ac.uk
authors: Ruth
authors: R
authors: McNally
mesh_terms: D016000:Cluster Analysis; D019295:Computational Biology; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D012106:Research; D012961:Sociology; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins