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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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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Do a cheminformatics PhD thesis at a world-class institution
June 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Hot Science, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source, People, Scientific Culture, Teaching
If the pompous title caught your attention, and you are ashamed of that: Don’t worry. It is all true. My cheminformatics and metabolism group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is looking for a phd student this year and all you need to do is apply through the regular route. The range of possible topics [...]
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ChemSpider aquired by the Royal Society of Chemistry
May 11th, 2009 · 3 Comments · Databases, Open Science, People, Scientific Culture
It’s going to be all over the place soon anyway, so I’ll make it short: The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that it has aquired ChemSpider. This is great news and I’m confident that it will be a move to even more openess in chemistry and cheminformatics. It will also allow the RSC to [...]
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ChEBI release 56, now with SD file
April 30th, 2009 · 6 Comments · ChEBI, Chemoinformatics, Databases, Open Access, Open Science, Open Source, People, Scientific Culture
We are pleased to announce release 56 of our database of Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI). SDF files are now available with ChEBI Release 56. They can be exported via the Downloads section or the search results page. We also have automatically generated links from IntEnz (www.ebi.ac.uk/intenz) and Rhea (www.ebi.ac.uk/rhea). This release contains 17842 [...]
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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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Asad Rahman on Small molecules and reaction mechanism – Rewiring the enzyme space
April 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Chemistry Development Kit, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Open Science, People, Scientific Culture
In the second research talk on Tuesday morning Asad from EBI talks about his research on finding pathes in metabolic networks. Asad and I have been working together CUBIC in Cologne and are now again colleagues at EBI. Goal of his work has been to find patterns in biological reaction networks. His first examples deals [...]
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