If you are a Spanish national or a spanish resident of other nationality and interested in conducting research as a postdoc in our group here at the EBI, there is now an open EMBL call for Spanish Fellowships with a deadline on 15 June 2010. The Steinbeck group conductions research in Cheminformatics and Metabolism, with […]
A supplement containing the meeting abstracts from the 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics, held in Goslar, Germany 8-10 November 2009, has been published in Journal of Cheminformatics. http://www.jcheminf.com/supplements/2/S1 The conference was organized by the Chemistry-Information-Computer (CIC) Division of the German Chemical Society (GDCh), and covered a broad range of topics in cheminformatics and drug discovery, […]
We are pleased to invite you to attend our second ChEBI User Group Workshop https://phonefindservice.info , which will take place in the IT Training Room at the European Bioninformatics Institute in Hinxton, UK on the 23rd and 24th June 2010. There will be an exciting line-up of speakers, including Peter Ertl from Novartis speaking about […]
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 […]
Sitting at a lunch table somewhere close to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, people around me are discussing crowdsourcing and why people are contributing to open source projects. Some of them never read Eric Raymond and I’m taking the opportunity to point to open versions of his seminal books: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, […]
We are pleased to announce that a draft programme is now available for the following Wellcome Trust Scientific Conference: Therapeutic Applications of Computational Biology and Chemistry: TACBAC 2010 1st March – 3rd March 2010 Wellcome Trust Conference Centre, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK With the US National Institute of Health’s Molecular Library Initiative and […]
The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, invites applications for PhD studentships in cheminformatics and chemogenomics. There are open positions in the groups of Christoph Steinbeck (Cheminformatics and Metabolism) and John Overington (Chemogenomics). The successful applicant will be able to choose from a variety of different subtopics of these fields and will be […]
I just opened the Free Software Session at the 5th German Conference on Cheminformatics in Goslar, German. I’m not saying much other than this conference is being twittered about and you’ll find out a lot about it. Here are my slides.
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 […]
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 […]