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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1st Call for Papers: Computational Aspects of Metabolomics (CINF Symposium, ACS Spring 2010)
September 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Chemoinformatics, Conferences and Meetings, Hot Science, Life of Chris, Open Science, Scientific Culture
First Call for Papers: Computational Aspects of Metabolomics 239th ACS National Meeting San Francisco, March 21-25, 2010 CINF Division We now invite papers for our symposium on computational aspects of Metabolomics at the 239th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society (ACS) in San Francisco next spring. Metabolomics studies the occurrence and change of concentrations [...]
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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
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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What do we expect from a chemical structure editor applet?
July 11th, 2009 · No Comments · ChEBI, Chemistry Development Kit, Chemoinformatics, JChemPaint, Open Science, Open Source, Scientific Culture
My team at the EBI maintains a couple of databases [1,2,3] dealing with various aspects of (bio-) organic chemistry. All of them need chemical structure editor applets where users can specify queries for substructure searches and which are used by our curators for data entry.The development of these databases is funded by the European Union [...]
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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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NMRShiftDB now with more than 12.000 proton spectra
May 14th, 2009 · 1 Comment · 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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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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