Google Wave is, without any doubt, the ultimate collaboration tool ever. Thus, it was only a matter of time before the ultimate collaborators, the scientists, became Google Wave fanboys.

I came across a couple of Science Waves yesterday that I thought I would share:

• Life Scientists Research Portal – Meant to be a jumping point for collaborative biological research projects.
• eResearch Community Wave – Meant to list waves relating to eResearch and to allow people interested in eResearch to find each other.

Both are very interesting Waves and can get a bit heavy. But, if you are into that sort of thing then you will love both those Waves and make some very interesting connections.

Moreover, those two Waves led me to a Wave called Research Collaborations in Wave. This place is your science Wave hub. Go there and you can link to all other science related Waves and projects being discussed. It is a large Wave and a number of robots or gadgets have been used in this Wave and discussed “in-depth” as to their usefulness and bugginess.

I found a List of Robots Wave (relating to science). This listed the following Science robot/gadget wish-list information:

Suggested

• Chatserver-Wave API for data visualization.
• Suggested PubMed Articles.
• FASTA bot for NCBI Queries
• Graphviz

In Progress

• Watexy – Latex robot for Google Wave.
• Sage – Could do mathematical calculations, see discussion.
• Mathematica – Available to some extend via the Wave Alpha robot Wave Alpha robot.

However, back at the Research Collaborations in Wave they have a serious list of robots that have been used in that Wave. They are as follows:

• Chemspidey (chemspidey@appspot.com) – takes a chemical name and pastes in a link to the appropriate entry on ChemSpider
• Janey (janey-robot@appspot.com) – query the Journal Name Estimator with blip text.
• Graphy (graph-wave@appspot.com) – automatically draws graphs from columns of data
• Igor (helpmeigor@appspot.com) – reference formatting robot
• CDKitty (chemdevelkit@appspot.com) – cheminformatics functionality
• Fnordlinky (fnordlinks@appspot.com) – replaces “PMID ” with a citation from PubMed
• Watexy (watexy@appspot.com) – replaces LaTeX between $$ by images.
• SynBioWave Robot for Synthetic Biology (synbiowave@appspot.com)
• BLAST Robot (blastrobot@appspot.com)
• CodeBot – A Coding Robot for Google Wave (codebot-wave@appspot.com)
• MCISB Proteome / Systems Biology Data Viewer (systems-biology-data@appspot.com)

What is really interesting about following the different threads connecting these Waves is just how much real collaboration is actually being done with real science projects using Google Wave. Very promising!

After you work your way through all those Waves and still feel left wanting, or inspired for more science related Waves. Visit the Google Wave for Research London Hackday Wave. You can walk through some of their Google Wave robot/gadget science demos and learn how to properly format your science paper in Google Wave.

Have I missed anything? Know of some other science Waves. Comment on them below and leave the link, we would all be interested in more science Waves.

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