I’m collecting some thoughts for my CDK workshop kick-off talk on Monday and I guess I’ll go for the boring regular version, with an introduction to CDK history, followed by some statistical figures and ending with an explanation of the format for the developers workshop on Tuesday afternoon. As anyone can read on our CDK […]
I’m attending the 3rd International Biocuration Conference in Berlin, which looks like a pretty successful meeting in terms of numbers of participants. Seems like somewhere between 100 and 200 participants. It looks like the time for recognition for biocuration and curated biological resource has come. The International Society for Biocuration has been inaugurated yesterday. People […]
My favorite thinkers over at the Singularity Hub have posted the quarterly summary of their best news stories. Go check it out. For those of you not knowing what this is about: Read the book “The singularity is near” by Ray Kurzweil. Compelling stuff. https://lookup-phone-prefix.ca
I’ve been invited to present our ChEBI ontology at the 2009 Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Here is our abstract: ChEBI – An open ontology for Chemical Entities of Biological Interest Paula de Matos (1), Kirill Degtyarenko (2), Marcus Ennis (1), Janna Hastings (1), Inma Spiteri (1) and Christoph Steinbeck (1) (1) European […]
I’ve just arrived at the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City. The trip was a real nuisance, 19 hours or so, and I always ask myself why I do this stuff.Still, after a fantastic breakfast in my even more fantastic hotel, the Grand America Hotel (review pending), and now being at the meeting, is is […]
I’m delighted to announce that the first open access journal of our field, the Journal of Cheminformatics, is now live and has published its first articles. Journal of Cheminformatics is a new open access journal from Chemistry Central publishing peer-reviewed research in all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling. It is run by Editors-in-Chief David […]
Just wanted to share this little gem with those of you who value the unix command line as much as I do. puttygen ssh PuTTY Quick connect
The CDK team is glad to announce the Spring 2009 CDK workshop held at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI). More than two years have passed since the last CDK workshop in Cologne and we hope to have these great events more regularly again. We are glad that the EBI Industry Program as well as the […]
… for getting Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Linux ready to run on my sweet little Dell Latitude XT. Things still were a total mess half a year ago when I go this sexy thing. Vista was preinstalled and drove me crazy with the famous Blue-Screen-of-Death, caused by crappy video drivers. I really wanted this tablet thing […]
In order to prevent major turbulences in the main source code development line of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK), we decided a while ago to have separate branches in our subversion source code management system for each developer and each of his subprojects. Once a project has been finalized by a developer in her branch, […]