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 […]
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 […]
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.
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, […]
The Chemistry-Information-Computer (CIC) division of the German Chemical Society announces the 4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics (22. CIC-Workshop) to be held in Goslar, Germany, November 09-11, 2008.
… with a reasonably small footprint … and we’ll soon have one that is actually usable. Well, with the JChemPaint applet, as used in NMRShiftDB, we do have an open source structure drawing applet available but we (as in “the makers”) have to admit that it still has a pretty big foot print. If you […]
A company called InfoCom, located in Arizona, advertises a product called iBioTech , which by all evidence is identical with Bioclipse. They say their iBioTech product has a plugin for chemoinformatics call “bc_cdk” (surprise :-)) and one called “bc_jmol” for 3D visualization. While this is something that we have explicitly not tried to prevent; still […]
In preparation for my wednesday CINF 101 talk in San Francisco I’ve produced my first tutorial movie on how to author nmrshiftdb datasets.
In his recent blog item “Chemical Archeology: OSCAR3 to NMRShiftDB.org” Egon Willighagen asks who coined the term “Chemical Archeology”.