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Journal of Cheminformatics receives Impact Factor of 3.42

July 4th, 2012 · 1 Comment · Chemoinformatics, Hot Science, Life of Chris, Open Access, Open Science, Publishing, Scientific Culture

We just wanted to update you with some good news from the Journal of Cheminformatics. The Thomson / ISI 2011 Journal Impact Factors were just released, and the Journal of Cheminformatics received an Impact Factor of 3.42 – the first year we have been given an impact factor. This is very high for a new [...]

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Open Position for a Scientific Database Curator/Annotator in ChEBI team

April 11th, 2012 · No Comments · ChEBI, Chemoinformatics, Databases, Open Data, Open Standards, Publishing, Scientific Culture

We are looking for a Scientific Database Curator/Annotator to work on the ChEBI (Chemical Entities of Biological Interest) project within the Cheminformatics and Metabolism Team. The position is based at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. The successful applicant will work on the existing [...]

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Philadelphia Symposium on Cheminformatics Opportunities in Personalized Medicine and Chemogenomics.

March 19th, 2012 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Hot Science, Life of Chris, People, Scientific Culture

We are accepting submissions of abstracts for consideration for an ACS Division of Chemical Information (CINF) Symposium on Cheminformatics Opportunities in Personalized Medicine and Chemogenomics. This session will bring together researchers investigating computational chemistry and cheminformatics to study the development of drugs based on our knowledge of genomes and to develop better methods to personalize [...]

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Upcoming conference: Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry (TACBAC)

December 9th, 2011 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Hot Science, Life of Chris, People, Scientific Culture

Courtesy of Andres Rueda, Flickr There are still places available at the 2012 conference on Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry (TACBAC), 12-14 March 2012, at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK This conference will bring together leading researchers investigating computational chemistry and biology techniques as applied to advancing our [...]

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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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Web chemistry components in JavaScript

October 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Open Science

Colleague Noel O’Boyle has already reported it: There is now an open collection of javascript-based chemistry components for the web, called ChemDoodle, released under GPL license by iChemLabs, inc. The stuff looks really neat. The collection comprises viewers, an editor, a look-up component (try entering accession numbers such as “1″, “2″ or “3″ (you get [...]

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1st Call for Papers: Computational Aspects of Metabolomics (CINF Symposium, ACS Spring 2010)

September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Hot Science, Life of Chris, Open Science, Scientific Culture

First Call for Papers: Computational Aspects of Metabolomics 239th ACS National Meeting San Francisco, March 21-25, 2010 CINF Division We now invite papers for our symposium on computational aspects of Metabolomics at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco next spring. Metabolomics studies the occurrence and change of concentrations [...]

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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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Do a cheminformatics PhD thesis at a world-class institution

June 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Hot Science, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source, People, Scientific Culture, Teaching

If the pompous title caught your attention, and you are ashamed of that: Don’t worry. It is all true. My cheminformatics and metabolism group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is looking for a phd student this year and all you need to do is apply through the regular route.  The range of possible topics [...]

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