Our new Journal of Cheminformatics has as of today, 22/07/09, published 11 papers since its launch in March of this year. One of those 11 papers has now reached the “highly accessed” status after it has recently been downloaded more than 1000 times. This is time for a celebration since it again demonstrates the superior [...]
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First paper in Journal of Cheminformatics reaches “highly accessed” status
July 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Open Science, Publishing, Scientific Culture
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ChEBI release 57, now with links to NMRShiftDB
May 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment · ChEBI, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Publishing
Congratulations to the ChEBI team for publishing ChEBI version 57.
ChEBI Release 57 now contains links to NMRShiftDB. Search ChEBI for “caffeine”, for example, and you find the link to the carbon NMR spectrum of caffeine on the “automatic XREFs” page of ChEBI, in the “Small Molecules” section.
ChEBI now contains just under 17,963 manually annotated entries [...]
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NMRShiftDB now with more than 12.000 proton spectra
May 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Databases, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source, Publishing, Scientific Culture
The number of structures and spectra in NMRShiftDB now exceeds 31.000 and 35.000, respectively. The number of proton spectra alone is now 12.934. This is due to NMRShiftDB developer Stefan Kuhn in my group importing a recent donation from our collaborators Reinhard Dunkel and Heinz Kolshorn. Thanks to Heinz and Reinhard for their generosity.
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3rd International Biocuration Conference in Berlin
April 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture
I’m attending the 3rd International Biocuration Conference in Berlin, which looks like a pretty successful meeting in terms of numbers of participants. Seems like somewhere between 100 and 200 participants. It looks like the time for recognition for biocuration and curated biological resource has come. The International Society for Biocuration has been inaugurated yesterday. People [...]
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Cheminformatics/Metabolism PhD position at EBI
April 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Blue Obelisk, Chemoinformatics, Open Science, Publishing
The Cheminformatics and Metabolism group at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, Cambridge, Uk, has an opening for a phd position. The EBI is one of four outstations of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and is a great place to do research in chemistry, cheminformatics and drug discovery. In all of these areas, [...]
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ChEBI at the Fall 2009 ACS meeting in Washington
March 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Life of Chris, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards, Publishing, Scientific Culture
I’ve been invited to present our ChEBI ontology at the 2009 Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society. Here is our abstract:
ChEBI – An open ontology for Chemical Entities of Biological Interest
Paula de Matos (1), Kirill Degtyarenko (2), Marcus Ennis (1), Janna
Hastings (1), Inma Spiteri (1) and Christoph Steinbeck (1)
(1) European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, [...]
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ACS Meeting Salt Lake City
March 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Publishing, Scientific Culture
I’ve just arrived at the ACS meeting in Salt Lake City. The trip was a real nuisance, 19 hours or so, and I always ask myself why I do this stuff.Still, after a fantastic breakfast in my even more fantastic hotel, the Grand America Hotel (review pending), and now being at the meeting, is is [...]
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Open Access Journal of Cheminformatics now live!
March 17th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Blue Obelisk, Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Databases, Informatics, Life of Chris, Open Access, Open Science, Open Source, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture, Structure Elucidation, Teaching, Uncategorized
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 [...]
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“new open source era … for better drugs”
March 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Source, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture, Teaching
As we learn from a rather poorly written article over at xconomy, “Biology has never really had a social-networking movement like open-source computing, where thousands of loosely-affiliated people around the world pool brainpower to make better software”. If you translate that into what was needed for biology (or chemistry) according to the xconomy author, it [...]
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Industry-funded medical research will double your impact factor
February 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Open Standards, Publishing, Scientific Culture
The Guardian has a nice piece by Ben Goldarcre reporting about a study published by the British Medial Journal entitled “Relation of study quality, concordance, take home message, funding, and impact in studies of influenza vaccines: systematic review”. Both the newpaper article and the study are worth reading and seem to be open. Besides many [...]
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