There are a few seats left for the 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics in Goslar and we’ll extend the deadline a bit to give you the chance to register if you haven’t done so. The GCC is a great chance to meet with around 200 other participants from all areas of life science informatics and […]
First Call for Papers: Computational Aspects of Metabolomics 239th ACS National Meeting San Francisco, March 21-25, 2010 CINF Division We now invite papers for our symposium on computational aspects of Metabolomics at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco next spring. Metabolomics studies the occurrence and change of concentrations […]
Our new Journal of Cheminformatics has as of today, 22/07/09, published 11 papers since its launch in March of this year. One of those 11 papers has now reached the “highly accessed” status after it has recently been downloaded more than 1000 times. This is time for a celebration since it again demonstrates the superior […]
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 […]
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 […]
In a heroic act, our collaborator Dan Gezelter, University of Notre Dame, has unearthed an historical document about our Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) from a SCSI DDS-4 tape he found somewhere on his attic. This morning, I found an email from Dan in my Inbox saying: I finally located a working SCSI DDS-4 tape drive […]
The Journal of Cheminformatics, of which I have the pleasure to be editor-in-chief together with David Wild in Indiana, has now published its first few articles. We’ve been busy selecting and reviewing papers which we feel suitably demonstrate the scope of knowledge and quality we are looking to cover in the new journal. I think […]
The CIC division of the German Chemical Society announces the 5. German Conference on Chemoinformatics to be held in Goslar, Germany, November 8 – 10, 2009. Goslar’s old town is a UNESCO world heritage site. We are inviting the submission of abstracts for talks and posters in the following plenary sessions: Chemoinformatics and Drug Discovcery […]
I’m glad to announce that the recent round of recruitment for the ChEBI team has been completed. We have two new colleagues, Steve Turner, our new Chemistry Curator, and Adriano Dekker, our new Software Engineer. Both will work with us to make ChEBI fit for the inclusion of more then 500.000 new ChEBI entries. Those […]
We made it! Well, actually, as usual, Peter made it. His cleverly worded blog item about the “Doktor Who” model of Open Source development caught Glyn Moody’s attention who then managed to get it accepted as a Slashdot news item. All you geeks out there know that this is a great honor. None of my […]