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Entries from March 27th, 2009

ChEBI at the Fall 2009 ACS meeting in Washington

March 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Life of Chris, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards, Publishing, Scientific Culture

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 [...]

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ACS Meeting Salt Lake City

March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Publishing, Scientific Culture

I’ve just arrived at the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City. The trip was a real nuisance, 19 hours or so, and I always ask myself why I do this stuff.Still, after a fantastic breakfast in my even more fantastic hotel, the Grand America Hotel (review pending), and now being at the meeting, is is [...]

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Open Access Journal of Cheminformatics now live!

March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blue Obelisk, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Informatics, Life of Chris, Open Access, Open Science, Open Source, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture, Structure Elucidation, Teaching, Uncategorized

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 [...]

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“new open source era … for better drugs”

March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture, Teaching

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 [...]

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They’ll get us. Resistance is futile.

March 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Fun, Informatics, Life of Chris

Just wanted to share this little gem with those of you who value the unix command line as much as I do.

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