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 David [...]
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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
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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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Linus on GIT on Google TechTalks
August 26th, 2008 · 8 Comments · Blue Obelisk, Chemistry Development Kit, Informatics, Open Standards, Publishing, Scientific Culture
I’m a big fan of Google TechTalks and watch a lot of them during flights. This week I enjoyed the recording of Linus Torvalds insulting all kinds of people including the whole SVN develoment team while introducing his distributed source code management system GIT. Egon had pointed me to GIT quite a while ago but [...]
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4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics
July 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, CIC, Conferences and Meetings, Life of Chris, Open Access, Open Data, Open Source, People, Publishing, Scientific Culture
The Chemistry-Information-Computer (CIC) division of the German Chemical Society announces the 4th German Conference on Chemoinformatics (22. CIC-Workshop) to be held in Goslar, Germany, November 09-11, 2008.
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Open Access Publishing in the Chemical Sciences
May 23rd, 2008 · 4 Comments · Blue Obelisk, Conferences and Meetings, Open Access, Open Data, Open Science, Publishing, Scientific Culture
I was invited to give my views on some new chemistry in European Bioinformatics at a Meeting held by the CICAG group of the Royal Society, held at Burlington House, London. Peter Murray-Rust set the scene by emphasising the importance for Open Data. He showed some fantastic work on data extraction by OSCAR from theses, [...]
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Name that graph
September 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Publishing, Scientific Culture
Being a fan of “name that graph” blog items in Blue Obelisk blogs, I thought this one would make a nice instance.
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Even better HTML Slidy presentations with Marvin Applets
June 27th, 2007 · 3 Comments · Open Science, Publishing, Teaching
Putting chemistry into presentations can be a pain in the neck. Keeping it up-to-date is even worse. When I access elderly presentations of mine, where I put ChemOffice stuff into Powerpoint via OLE, I can be absolutely sure that the information is lost, after moving to Linux, Open Office and free structure editors. But there [...]
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The role of open standards in publishing chemical information
June 8th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Open Science, Publishing
A symposium entitled “Wikis, Blogs and Podcasting: Creating and Distributing Chemistry Teaching Materials in the Information Age” will be held as part of the national meeting of the German Chemical Society in Ulm, Sept. 16. – 19.. 2007, organized by the “Chemistry-Information-Computers (CIC)” division of the German Chemical Society and the “Chemical Information (CINF) division [...]
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Interactive Open Access and Collaborative Peer Review
June 3rd, 2007 · No Comments · Open Standards, Publishing
An interesting article by Ulrich Poeschl on Interactive Open Access Publishing and Collaborative Peer Review in the latest issue “Forschung & Lehre” describes a publication process practiced for example by “Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics” and sister publications. In a first step, a submission is immediately published as a “discussion paper” in the online discussion forums [...]
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