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Entries from February 25th, 2009

Open positions in my team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI)

February 25th, 2009 · No Comments · Open Science

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 a [...]

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CDK Workshop at EBI on April 20/21

February 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blue Obelisk, Chemistry Development Kit, Conferences and Meetings, Fun, Life of Chris, Open Science, Open Source, People, Teaching

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 EBI [...]

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Industry-funded medical research will double your impact factor

February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards, Publishing, Scientific Culture

The Guardian has a nice piece by Ben Goldarcre reporting about a study published by the British Medial Journal entitled “Relation of study quality, 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 open. Besides many [...]

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The Hilton in Bonn, Germany

February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Quite a contrast to the Renaissance Hotel in Cologne, where I stayed yesterday, is todays stay at the Hilton in Bonn, Germany’s former capitol village. The run-down place confirmed experiences with previous hotel of the same chain. While my room was nicely renovated, the communal areas of the hotel made me feel like in a [...]

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The Renaissance Hotel in Cologne

February 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Business, Diving, Flying, Hotels

I’m staying for two nights at the Renaissance Hotel in Cologne, Germany. The place is perfectly located just a few steps away from Friesenplatz, since I had some business to do at the University. The Renaissance Hotels belong to the Marriott empire. One thing that struck me with this particular stay was the extremely well [...]

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Open Notebook Science/Open Drug Discovery at GDCh national meeting

February 13th, 2009 · No Comments · Blue Obelisk, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Open Science

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, I thought [...]

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