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Internship in Bioinformatics/Cheminformatics

We are looking for a candidate for an internship/trainee position in bioinformatics/cheminformatics at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) to work on a high-performance generator for chemical structures. This position requires strong programming skills in Java, a reasonable working knowledge in chemical structures and graph theory as well as an interest in learning about Apache Hadoop […]

Open Access Journal of Cheminformatics now live!

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 […]

Linus on GIT on Google TechTalks

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 […]

Beilstein Symposium on Systems Chemistry, Day 2

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 […]