If you are a Spanish national or a spanish resident of other nationality and interested in conducting research as a postdoc in our group here at the EBI, there is now an open EMBL call for Spanish Fellowships with a deadline on 15 June 2010. The Steinbeck group conductions research in Cheminformatics and Metabolism, with a focus on Metabolomics, Natural Products Structure Elucidation and Chemical Ontology.
Spanish nationals and other nationalities resident in Spain are invited to apply for a fellowship to conduct research at EMBL.
The deadline for applications is Tuesday 15 June 2010.
A supplement containing the meeting abstracts from the 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics, held in Goslar, Germany 8-10 November 2009, has been published in Journal of Cheminformatics.
The conference was organized by the Chemistry-Information-Computer (CIC) Division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), and covered a broad range of topics in cheminformatics and drug discovery, chemical information and databases, molecular modeling, and computational material science and nanotechnology. The supplement was edited by Frank Oellien, Uli Fechner and Thomas Engel from the GDCh-CIC Division.
The program included an overview of the field of Systems Chemistry from Günter von Kiedrowski (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), 6 plenary lectures from Eberhard Voit, Knut Baumann, Thomas Kostka, Anthony Williams putty download windows , Karl-Heinz Baringhaus, and Christoph Sotriffer, 17 general lectures, and 54 poster presentations.
If you or any colleagues are organizing a conference or symposium, and would like to publish a supplement of papers in the Journal of Cheminformatics, please let me know. Also, we can publish Thematic Issues of papers in topical subject areas. All feedback (and papers) gratefully received!
We are pleased to invite you to attend our second ChEBI User Group Workshop https://phonefindservice.info , which will take place in the IT Training Room at the European Bioninformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK on the 23rd and 24th June 2010.
There will be an exciting line-up of speakers, including Peter Ertl from Novartis speaking about ‘Natural Products’, and several intensive discussion sessions during which you will be given the opportunity to influence the future evolution of the ChEBI project. We will also provide training on ChEBI including using ChEBI for research purposes and submitting your chemicals to ChEBI for annotation.
As the eruption under the Eyjaflalla glacier in Iceland kept me on the ground yesterday, together with half a million other people in Europe, and I found myself confronted with the question of what to do with another evening in Cambridge. So I decided to give the Oak Bistro a try which is just a two-minutes walk from where I live but which so far had slipped my attention. The Bistro is located in a historic coaching inn at the corner of Regent Street and Lensfield Road. People sitting at one of the few tables in the front room can observe the busy life at the crossing. As an elderly lady with a hearing problem kept shouting at her company, I decided to take a table in the back of the bistro. The Oak features an eclectic menu with hints to a number of international cuisines. I started with some Shetland scallops which still had their coral attached, placed on a bed of a very nice, light, citric green salsa, accompanied by a Viognier Altas Cumbres Lujan de Cuyo from Argentina from 2008, a relatively light and crispy white wine. For main course, I choose to go for the wild mushroom risotto, which was good. The chef ignored my resentment against truffle oil but luckily used it very sparingly.With it, I had a Broken Rock Chenin Blanc from Coastal South Africa, again 2008. It held what the wine list promised.
I finished with a selection of cheeses, which was a mistake (three relatively large pieces of relatively boring cheeses), only to have reason to drink one of their desert whines, followed by a glass of Armagnac and Espresso. Overall, it was a very delightful evening with good food and the Oak’s friendly and attentive staff.
Did I make my way home? Yes, I was able to get one of the few remaining Eurostar Tickets for the next day and took the train from London St. Pancras home to the Black Forest. Breakfast in London, lunch in Paris, dinner with your loved ones at home in south-west Germany. Life could be worse.
The workflow paradigm allows scientists to flexibly create generic workflows using different kinds of data sources, filters and algorithms, which can later be adapted to changing needs. In order to achieve this, library methods are encapsulated in Lego(TM)-like building blocks which can be manipulated with a mouse or any pointing device in a graphical environment, relieving the scientist from the need to learn a programming language. Building blocks, so-called workers, are connected by data pipelines to enable data flow between them, which is why pipelining is often used interchangeably for workflow.
Sitting at a lunch table somewhere close to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, people around me are discussing crowdsourcing and why people are contributing to open source projects. Some of them never read Eric Raymond and I’m taking the opportunity to point to open versions of his seminal books: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Magic Cauldron and particularly Homesteading the Noosphere, where he discusses the mechanics of the open source movement. Essential reading for everybody interested in open source, open data, open standards and open access. The articles have been published as a very nice book by O’Reilly.
Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK
With the US National Institute of Health’s Molecular Library Initiative and the EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute’s chemogenomics and cheminformatics programmes, large-scale drug discovery and biological screening data have entered the public domain. We are also witnessing the first efforts to sequence individual human genomes, and are making impressive progress in understanding the genomes of some of the world’s most significant disease-causing organisms. Integration of genomic sequence information with proteomics and metabolomics data provides an unprecedented chance to systematically attack disease on a molecular level. Open access to bioinformatics and cheminformatics data also opens up exciting new opportunities for academic–industrial collaboration. TACBAC 2010 will bring together experts from both the biomedical and the computational domains to explore these novel developments, discuss how to overcome the major challenges, and create new opportunities for applying computational biology and chemistry to disease management and prevention.
Further Information, draft programme & Registration:
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, invites applications for PhD studentships in cheminformatics and chemogenomics. There are open positions in the groups of Christoph Steinbeck (Cheminformatics and Metabolism) and John Overington (Chemogenomics). The successful applicant will be able to choose from a variety of different subtopics of these fields and will be enrolled with the University of Cambridge.
I just opened the Free Software Session at the 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics in Goslar, German. I’m not saying much other than this conference is being twittered about and you’ll find out a lot about it. Here are my slides.
I’ve decided to merge my two blogs which, so far, I wanted to keep separate because of their potentially different readership. But now I think that they are just two connected aspects of my life and, hey, a weblog should report about exactly this. Within certain boundaries, of course :-).
So, while Steinblog was about my scientific life and event or news related to it, my travel blog reported about two other aspects, the need to travel a lot and the better and less good places that I encounter as well as my passion for good food (liquid and solid) and the places where you get it. I called this travel blog “Reports from a quest for quality and silence” because that’s what it is. And quality and silence is hard to find.
A short while ago I stayed at the Marriott Metro Center in Washington during the 2009 ACS Fall National Meeting. The first night was good, the room is nice and reasonably quiet, as requested. My satisfaction received a first hit when I tried to have breakfast the morning after and, after being seated, found myself between two competing sources of loud music, one from the lobby and one from the bar in the breakfast restaurant. So much for my quest for silence 🙂 The local starbucks did a much better job, so I had breakfast there. Overall, the Marriott Metro Center gets a good rating:
Location: 8/10, two blocks away from the conference center, $50 by taxi from the airport.
Room: 7/10 Could be bigger but well fitted with everything you need. Nice wide LCD TV. Internet for $12 a day.
Lobby and Chill-out areas: 5/10. Lobby area is too small, as is the seating area with too few sofas and chairs.
Breakfast: 3/10 See above. Couldn’t really test it but even without the music the place feels a bit like eating in the middle of a highway.
Room Service and Laundry: 8/10, Fast, reliable.
Concierge: 8/10 Very friendly and professional.
Gym: 9/10, well equipped, spacey, every machine you need, yoga mats available.
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The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, invites applications for PhD studentships in cheminformatics and chemogenomics. There are open positions in the groups of Christoph Steinbeck (Cheminformatics and Metabolism) and John Overington (Chemogenomics). The successful applicant will be able to choose from a variety of different subtopics of these fields and will be enrolled with the University of Cambridge.
I’ve decided to merge my two blogs which, so far, I wanted to keep separate because of their potentially different readership. But now I think that they are just two connected aspects of my life and, hey, a weblog should report about exactly this. Within certain boundaries, of course :-).