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Entries from March 29th, 2010

CDK-Taverna paper published

March 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Chemistry Development Kit, Chemoinformatics, Open Science, Open Source, Open Standards

We are glad to announce that our article about CDK-Taverna, an open workflow solution for cheminformatics, is now online on BMC Bioinformatics. CDK-Taverna, which lives at http://www.cdk-taverna.de/, features more than 160 workers for various tasks in molecular informatics. The workflow paradigm allows scientists to flexibly create generic workflows using different kinds of data sources, filters [...]

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Why are people contributing to open source projects?

March 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Open Science

Sitting at a lunch table somewhere close to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, people around me are discussing crowdsourcing and why people are contributing to open source projects. Some of them never read Eric Raymond and I’m taking the opportunity to point to open versions of his seminal books: The Cathedral and the Bazaar,  [...]

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