Congratulations to the ChEBI team for publishing ChEBI version 57.
ChEBI Release 57 now contains links to NMRShiftDB. Search ChEBI for “caffeine”, for example, and you find the link to the carbon NMR spectrum of caffeine on the “automatic XREFs” page of ChEBI, in the “Small Molecules” section.
ChEBI now contains just under 17,963 manually annotated entries [...]
Entries from May 27th, 2009
ChEBI release 57, now with links to NMRShiftDB
May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ChEBI, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Publishing
Tags: Add new tag·ChEBI·NMR·NMRShiftDB
ChEBI chemistry ontology development funded by BBSRC
May 19th, 2009 · No Comments · ChEBI, Chemoinformatics, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards
We received our official award letter from BBSRC Tools and Resources Fund today for the ChEBI ontology development grant. Needless to say, we are thrilled. We are now going to work together with Michael Ashburner’s group at the University of Cambridge to align ChEBI with other OBO Foundry ontologies by adoption of the Basic Formal [...]
Tags: ChEBI·Ontologies
NMRShiftDB now with more than 12.000 proton spectra
May 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Databases, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source, Publishing, Scientific Culture
The number of structures and spectra in NMRShiftDB now exceeds 31.000 and 35.000, respectively. The number of proton spectra alone is now 12.934. This is due to NMRShiftDB developer Stefan Kuhn in my group importing a recent donation from our collaborators Reinhard Dunkel and Heinz Kolshorn. Thanks to Heinz and Reinhard for their generosity.
Tags: NMR·NMRShiftDB·Open Access
ChemSpider aquired by the Royal Society of Chemistry
May 11th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Databases, Open Science, People, Scientific Culture
It’s going to be all over the place soon anyway, so I’ll make it short: The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that it has aquired ChemSpider. This is great news and I’m confident that it will be a move to even more openess in chemistry and cheminformatics. It will also allow the RSC to [...]
Tags: ChemSpider·RSC
ChEBI behind the scenes
May 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments · ChEBI, Databases, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards
With ChEBI release 56 behind us, I thought I’d share some insight into how ChEBI is created and what we do to prepare a release. In the last years, the ChEBI team on average consisted of two software engineers maintaining and improving the software and two to three curators doing the data entry and curation. [...]
Tags: ChEBI·Curation·Ontologies
The "Asia" on Regent Street, Cambridge, UK
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Following a recommendation by a colleague, I went to the Asia on Regent Street in Cambridge. They describe themselves as pan-Asian but I felt that there was a bit much emphasis on the indian subcontinent to be truely pan-asian.
The interior is “basic”, simplicity rules, and I had a nice table with a view on the [...]
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The Shiro i Shiro in Berlin
May 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Restaurants
Looking for a truly outstanding Japanese dining experience in a really unusual interior? The Shiro i Shiro – in waling distance to the Alexanderplatz – is it.
We asked them for selection of their choice and got:
Miso soup and silk tofu
Poached egg in a smoked broth
A selection of sushi and sashimi and kobe beef
Lamb and black [...]
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