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Archive for May, 2011

IntEnz Release 69 and Rhea Release 22 are out

Rafael Alcantara in my group, together with our collaborators at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, has released version 69 of our enzyme nomenclature database IntEnz and version 22 of our biochemical reaction database Rhea. News: 11 new sub-subclasses and 49 EC numbers have been added to the enzyme classification. Over sixteen thousand unique reaction identifiers. […]

ChEBI release 79

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is one of the free, yet fully curated databases in Chemistry. It is developed by my team at the European Bioinformatics Institute in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. As of 09 May 2011  we now have ChEBI release 79 online, with 25,238 fully annotated three star level molecular entities. The term ‘molecular entity’ […]

Un-creative re-use of J. Chem. Inf. editorial

I was recently alerted by someone about chunks of text copied from an editorial by my colleague David Wild in the Journal of Cheminformatics [1] appearing in another article by Nutan Prakash and Dinta A. Gareja in the Journal of Proteomics and Bioinformatics [2]. While David’s article is cited as a reference, those larger chunks of text […]