Saturday, May 13, 2006

Postgenomics script for Firefox

I am playing around with greasemonkey to try to add links to Postgenomic to journal websites. The basic idea is to search the webpage you are seeing (like a Nature website for example) for papers that have been talked about in blogs and are tracked by Postgenomic. When one is found a little picture is added with a link to the Postgenomic page talking about the paper.
The result is something like this (in the case of the table of contents):


Or like this when viewing the paper itself:


In another journal:


I am more comfortable with Perl, but anyway I think it works as a proof or principle. If Stew agrees I'll probably post the script in Nodalpoint for people to improve or just try it out.