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Archive for July, 2009

What do we expect from a chemical structure editor applet?

My team at the EBI maintains a couple of databases [1,2,3] dealing with various aspects of (bio-) organic chemistry. All of them need chemical structure editor applets where users can specify queries for substructure searches and which are used by our curators for data entry.The development of these databases is funded by the European Union […]

Open Data goes Mainstream

My favorite German computer magzine C’t has an extensive 8-page article about open science and open data (“Rip – Mix – Publish” :-)). Peter Murray-Rust is cited and so is Jean-Claude Bradley. The article  also speaks about the German National Library of Science and Technology’s (TIB) project to DOI-tag data. In this context: Together with […]