I’m delighted to announce that the first open access journal of our field, the Journal of Cheminformatics, is now live and has published its first articles. Journal of Cheminformatics is a new open access journal from Chemistry Central publishing peer-reviewed research in all aspects of cheminformatics and molecular modelling. It is run by Editors-in-Chief David [...]
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Open Access Journal of Cheminformatics now live!
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blue Obelisk, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Informatics, Life of Chris, Open Access, Open Science, Open Source, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture, Structure Elucidation, Teaching, Uncategorized
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They’ll get us. Resistance is futile.
March 3rd, 2009 · 1 Comment · Fun, Informatics, Life of Chris
Just wanted to share this little gem with those of you who value the unix command line as much as I do.
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Linus on GIT on Google TechTalks
August 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Blue Obelisk, Chemistry Development Kit, Informatics, Open Standards, Publishing, Scientific Culture
I’m a big fan of Google TechTalks and watch a lot of them during flights. This week I enjoyed the recording of Linus Torvalds insulting all kinds of people including the whole SVN develoment team while introducing his distributed source code management system GIT. Egon had pointed me to GIT quite a while ago but [...]
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Beilstein Symposium on Systems Chemistry, Day 2
May 28th, 2008 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Hot Science, Informatics, Life of Chris, Open Science, Scientific Culture
The Wednesday morning session is about to start. Paul Labute chairs it. Tom Blundell of Cambridge starts with “Exploring Biological and Chemical Space with High-Throughput Crystallographic, Biophysical and Computational Methods: The new Dimensions of Drug Discovery”. Tom starts with a view on a cell, stating its complicatedness or complexity. He points out the large number [...]
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John Backus dies at the age of 82
May 8th, 2007 · No Comments · Informatics, People
The April 26 issue of NATURE reports the death of John Backus on March 17, 2007.
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Real Programmers don’t use Pascal
October 10th, 2006 · No Comments · Fun, Informatics
A recent lunch table discussion brought up this jewel of a text again.
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