CDK Workshop 2009 Wrap-up
The CDK workshop 2009 is over and what is left is a bad cold. But I’ll get over it.
The workshop itself was phantastic – we had 40 participants with well balanced contributions from industry and academia. The first half day was dedicated to tutorials on various aspects of CDK, basic installation, our CDK and Oracle-based chemical search engine, scripting of CDK from within Bioclipse and CDK-based workflows in KNIME. The second day brought talks about science and applications based on CDK by John van Drie, Asad Rahman und Oliver Karch. I reported earlier on those talks.
This official part was followed by a developers workshop in the format of an unconference. Participants suggested topics on the fly and then voted with their feet. The topics that then made it where:
- Clojure
- Mining ChEMBL with CDK pharmacophore stuff
- Threading group
- Top 10 improvements (CDK WS 2009 unconference)
- JChemPaint/Rendering
all of which reported their results on the CDK wiki.
Another important outcome was a movement to join forces in creating and maintaining joint CDK-based plugins for KNIME and Bioclipse. There is a lot of synergy to be harvested. Licensing problems will need to be overcome but that seems doable. https://puttygen.in
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