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Entries from July 23rd, 2008

Breaking News: Open access to large-scale drug discovery data at EBI

July 23rd, 2008 · 10 Comments · Open Science

Very exciting things have just happened here at EBI in the area of chemoinformatics and drug discovery:
The Wellcome Trust has awarded £4.7 million to the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) to support the transfer of a large collection of information on the properties and activities of drugs and a large set of drug-like small molecules from [...]

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The Crowne Plaza, Koulova 15, in Prague

July 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Business, Hotels

Not much to say here. For a hotel of this chain, a disaster! Avoid it, if you can. Take the Marriott or the Hilton in the center, or even better, one of the small, more private hotels in the area.
The Crown Plaza’s staff was, with the usual exceptions, crabby and unfriendly, and – [...]

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The Trouble with Physics

July 15th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Hot Science, Life of Chris, Open Science, People, Scientific Culture, Teaching

I do not normally recommend books that I read to a wider public. Partly because I’m disappointed if someone dislikes a book that I loved, partly because I do not think that my taste is of interest to anyone, partly because 90% of my reading was written by Terry Pratchett. In addition, when it [...]

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4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics

July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · CIC, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Open Access, Open Data, Open Source, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture

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.

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