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As reported in a previous post, the  Journal of Cheminformatics  has received its first Impact Factor of 3.42.  JEditors-in-Chief David Wild (Indiana University, US) and Christoph Steinbeck (European Bioinformatics Institute, UK) commented: “Our aim when we started Journal of Cheminformatics in 2009, was to impact a wide audience with high quality, interesting and relevant cheminformatics [...]

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The MetaboLights repository for metabolomics data has officially been launched at the Metabolomics Society Meeting in Washington, June 25-28, 2012. The MetaboLights repository aims to become the first comprehensive, cross-species, cross-platform metabolomics database maintained by one of the major open access data providers in molecular biology. The European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) ensures long-term stability and [...]

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  Registration and submission of abstracts is now open for the 2012 Metabolomics Society Meeting in Washington, June 25-28. We put together an exciting programme with sessions and workshops in a number of areas. Allow me to draw your attention to the two sessions I’m helping to organize, the Databases & Data Analysis session and [...]

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We are looking for a Software Engineer/Bioinformatician/Cheminformatician to join the Cheminformatics and Metabolism team at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK. The post-holder will join a project team of currently 4 people to build the new Metabolomics database at the EBI and be part [...]

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Just wanted to make you aware that the deadline on Sep 15 for the chemical information mining postdoc position in my group is approaching quickly. For more information on the position, please refer to http://www.steinbeck-molecular.de/steinblog/index.php/2011/07/10/opening-for-a-postdoc-in-my-group/.

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We now have an opening for a postdoc position in my group in collaboration with the group of Dietrich Rebholz-Schuhmann at the EBI. The position is funded for three years by the EIPOD scheme at EMBL. The proposed work combines methods from image recognition (OSRA, Filippov2009), cheminformatics (CDK ,Steinbeck2003), chemometrics (Gkoutos2003) and text-mining (OSCAR3, Corbett2006, Tiago2009) to [...]

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ChEBI release 80 is now available, with 25,518 fully annotated at the highest 3* level. We have an old friend as our entity of the month this time: The Electron.    

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I know this title is going to bore the hell out of most of you. We had this religious fight about Linux, Windows and Mac OS and other OS’s for the last 20 years and longer I’m right now sitting in a conference, like almost every week, and right now, as in many cases in [...]

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