I was happy to notice just a minute ago that the first blog items covering the\nACS meeting are popping up: C&EN has set up a\ndedicated blog about the meeting, Nature’s Sceptical Caterine\nwrote she has reached the meeting too, Richard wrote about the\nscent of bugs in wine (or so), and\nKyle won’t make it other than tomorrow. Additionally, Nature is running a\ncoverage of the ACS meeting.\nOn the reader side, Paul is hoping that Whitesides\nwill be blogged about.
\n\nMy first day at the conference was interesting. The huge facility makes navigation a bit problematic, and we\nseemed to make it a habit to explore the wrong end of the building before heading in the right direction.\nThere are a lot of maps in the ACS On-Site Meeting Program, but a nice overview map is lacking. Anyway, I\nspent the morning session in the ‘blog, wiki, and podcast session’, and the afternoon in CINF session honoring\nProf. Wiggins.
\n\nVogel was the first speaker in the CHED C Section morning session, and spoke about blogs and RSS feeds in general.\nMitch’ Yahoo Pipes hackup was mentioned\nin one of the talks in this morning session. Currano followed with a discussion on social bookmarking, and so did\nPence who focussed on the function in education. Francl put chemical blogging in some perspective which led to a\nshort discussion on the difference in idea between blogs and wiki’s. Gelder and Picione spoke about podcasting as\nmultimedia blogs. Scott represented recent work by Nature in exploring Second Life technologies, and mentioned the\nchemistry on their island, which happened to host a session of the First Online EMBL PhD Symposium last year .\nBradley spoke about how he integrated blogs and wiki’s into there practicals. The atmosphere of the session was\nrelaxed and the discussion lively.
\n\nThe downside of all these parallel sessions is that it is bound to give clashes. It’s apparently even supposed to,\nbecause the ACS website private schedule assistant is made to make you aware and resolve such clashes. So, while\nI had to skip the CINF morning session honoring Wiggens, I had to skip the CHED session on social networking continuing\non the CHED morning session. For example, I has to miss the presentation by Rzepa on the semantic wiki\n(Henry, I hope to have made up for it, by plugging your work here :)
\n\nMurray-Rust was the first speaker of the CINF Section A afternoon session, and talked about mashups, text mining\nand other things done in Cambridge. He also mentioned recent Greasemonkey scripts using comments from and\nenhancing our chemical blogs, now described at the Blue Obelisk website.\n(Especially the Chemical blogspace enhanced TOC of chemistry journals is nice.) Wild spoke about\nintegrating text mining and chemoinformatics tools, and showed a mockup of a\n‘by the way’ system for PubChem, where a PubChem entry would be enhanced with ‘BTW, did you know that these 7\narticles mention this molecules, and that … etc’. These things are going to happen this year. Heller held his\nusual talk on InChI and PubChem, though the content has slightly changed since the last two versions I’ve\nseen (not the message, though). Doman gave a practical example showing backing up earlier statements that\ntoo much information is lost in the publication process. Heritage showed Elsevier/MDL’s view on the future of\nchemoinformatics, and accurately touched where it is currently failing. Amusingly, he pointed out that Elsevier,\nthe publisher, would love to see more accurate QSAR/QSPAR/VS/etc models; ironically, it is, actually, for a\nlarge part caused by data not ending up in publications that predictive models are not as accurate as they\ncould be. So, while looking at the chemoinformaticians/metricians, they should really be looking at themselves.
\n\nSome of these presentations mentioned directly or indirectly things I worked on. Thanx for doing that! Because I\nknew that there was funding for going to this meeting, only after the poster submission deadline was closed, I\nam not in the opportunity to present my work myself.
\n\nThe evening is for the traditionally parties, time to eat, drink, network, make deals and try to convince others\nabout the virtues of ODOSOS .
\n\nA last reminder: tomorrow afternoon at 13:00 at Laptop Lane in the exposition area is a meeting of chemical\nbloggers. Please join and chat IRL for once! :)
", "summary": "I was happy to notice just a minute ago that the first blog items covering the ACS meeting are popping up: C&EN has set up a dedicated blog about the meeting, Nature’s Sceptical Caterine wrote she has reached the meeting too, Richard wrote about the scent of bugs in wine (or so), and Kyle won’t make it other than tomorrow. Additionally, Nature is running a coverage of the ACS meeting. On the reader side, Paul is hoping that Whitesides will be blogged about.", "date_published": "2007-03-26T00:00:00+00:00", "date_modified": "2025-04-12T00:00:00+00:00", "tags": ["acs"], "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ] } ] }