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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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
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A more complete human, Part 1
November 22nd, 2011 · 2 Comments · Leisure, Life of Chris, Open Science, People, Scientific Culture, Teaching
What does it mean to live a good life? Philosophers have written about this questions for thousands of years, and very often we find surprisingly up-to-date answers and suggestions in texts as old as 2000 years. Sadly, most of the people in our hectic western societies (and the more and more hectic eastern societies and [...]
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Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry 2012 (TACBAC)
June 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · Conferences and Meetings, Hot Science, Life of Chris, People, Scientific Culture
I’m co-organizing 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 ability to predict, diagnose and modulate human disease. This [...]
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The Oak Bistro in Cambridge, UK
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · Leisure, Life of Chris, Restaurants
As the eruption under the Eyjaflalla glacier in Iceland kept me on the ground yesterday, together with half a million other people in Europe, and I found myself confronted with the question of what to do with another evening in Cambridge. So I decided to give the Oak Bistro a try which is just a [...]
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Reports from a quest for quality and silence: The Marriott Metro Center in Washington, DC
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments · Business, Conferences and Meetings, Hotels, Life of Chris
I’ve decided to merge my two blogs which, so far, I wanted to keep separate because of their potentially different readership. But now I think that they are just two connected aspects of my life and, hey, a weblog should report about exactly this. Within certain boundaries, of course . So, while Steinblog was about [...]
Some seats left at German Conference on Cheminformatics 2009
October 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Conferences and Meetings, Hot Science, Life of Chris, Open Science, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture
There are a few seats left for the 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics in Goslar and we’ll extend the deadline a bit to give you the chance to register if you haven’t done so. The GCC is a great chance to meet with around 200 other participants from all areas of life science informatics and [...]
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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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New ChEBI team members
June 20th, 2009 · No Comments · ChEBI, Life of Chris, Open Science
I’m glad to announce that the recent round of recruitment for the ChEBI team has been completed. We have two new colleagues, Steve Turner, our new Chemistry Curator, and Adriano Dekker, our new Software Engineer. Both will work with us to make ChEBI fit for the inclusion of more then 500.000 new ChEBI entries. Those [...]
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CDK Workshop 2009 Wrap-up
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Bioclipse, Blue Obelisk, Chemistry Development Kit, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Fun, Life of Chris, Open Science, Open Source, People, Scientific Culture, Teaching
The CDK workshop 2009 is over and what is left is a bad cold. But I’ll get over it. The workshop itself was phantastic – we had 40 participants with well balanced contributions from industry and academia. The first half day was dedicated to tutorials on various aspects of CDK, basic installation, our CDK and [...]
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Oliver Karch about Molwind – Using CDK to Visualize Molecule Spaces in a Geospatial Context
April 21st, 2009 · 3 Comments · Chemistry Development Kit, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Open Science, People, Scientific Culture
Oliver Karch from Merck-Serono gave the last talk on Tuesday morning, showing how to visualize CDK to visualize molecular spaces in a way “as easy as Google Earth”. They us a workflow with Pipeline Pilot, a MolWind Server, which is Java and Apache based and then render 2D structures with CDK. The NASA Molwind client [...]
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