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Entries from July 23rd, 2009

First paper in Journal of Cheminformatics reaches “highly accessed” status

July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Open Science, Publishing, Scientific Culture

Our new Journal of Cheminformatics has as of today, 22/07/09, published 11 papers since its launch in March of this year. One of those 11 papers has now reached the “highly accessed” status after it has recently been downloaded more than 1000 times. This is time for a celebration since it again demonstrates the superior [...]

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What do we expect from a chemical structure editor applet?

July 11th, 2009 · No Comments · ChEBI, Chemistry Development Kit, Chemoinformatics, JChemPaint, Open Science, Open Source, Scientific Culture

My team at the EBI maintains a couple of databases [1,2,3] dealing with various aspects of (bio-) organic chemistry. All of them need chemical structure editor applets where users can specify queries for substructure searches and which are used by our curators for data entry.The development of these databases is funded by the European Union [...]

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Open Data goes Mainstream

July 1st, 2009 · No Comments · Open Science

My favorite German computer magzine C’t has an extensive 8-page article about open science and open data (“Rip – Mix – Publish” ). Peter Murray-Rust is cited and so is Jean-Claude Bradley. The article  also speaks about the German National Library of Science and Technology’s (TIB) project to DOI-tag data. In this context: Together with [...]

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