The Cheminformatics and Metabolism group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, Uk, has an opening for a phd position. The EBI is one of four outstations of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and is a great place to do research in chemistry, cheminformatics and drug discovery. In all of these areas, […]
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’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 […]
As we learn from a rather poorly written article over at xconomy, “Biology has never really had a social-networking movement like open-source computing, where thousands of loosely-affiliated people around the world pool brainpower to make better software”. If you translate that into what was needed for biology (or chemistry) according to the xconomy author, it […]
We have two open positions for a Software Engineer and a Scientific Database Curator in my team here at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK. We are looking for a scientific database annotator to work on the ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest) project. The aim of this project is to provide […]
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 […]
The Guardian has a nice piece by Ben Goldarcre reporting about a study published by the British Medial Journal entitled “Relation of study quality puttygen download , concordance, take home message, funding, and impact in studies of influenza vaccines: systematic review”. Both the newpaper article and the study are worth reading and seem to be […]
For the national meeting of the German Chemical Society in Frankfurt, August 30 – September 2, 2009, I’m co-organising a symposium on Open Notebook Science and Open Drug Discovery. John Overington, Cameron Neylon and Egon Willighagen have already agreed to speak and we are looking for further interesting speakers. Being incredibly Open PuTTY SSH execute […]
Duan Lian, a colleague from the Laboratory of Molecular Modelling and Design in Shanghai, is keen on getting more cheminformatics functionality implemented in Javascript and I’m perfectly in line with his goals. He has posted some results at http://chemhack.com/mx-gwt/demo-molecule-structure-rendering, with more certainly to come.
We’ve got 20 seats left for participants for the 4. German Conference on Chemoinformatics in Goslar next month. Please help us to reach our limit of 200 participants and register at http://www.gdch.de/gcc2008