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  "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.",
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      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
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      "id": "https://doi.org/10.59350/9qsxx-j6z92",
      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2007/10/29/biospider-another-molecule-search.html",
      "title": "BioSpider: another molecule search engine",
      "content_html": "<p>I just ran into <a href=\"http://biospider.ca/\">BioSpider</a>. Unlike <a href=\"http://www.chemspider.com/\">ChemSpider</a>, BioSpider crawls the\ninternet (well, <a href=\"http://redpoll.pharmacy.ualberta.ca/~knox/biospider2/sources.html\">this list of sources really</a>) to find\ninformation, and depending on what it finds it continues the search. Below is a screenshot of an intermediate point after\nstarting with the InChI of methane:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/biospider.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p>After the search it generates a long HTML page with all the information it found on the molecule you queried for.\nThis approach is much more scalable than storing all in one database.</p>\n\n<p>This crawling of information is something I was working on myself a bit too, and I think this is a good approach.\nHowever, I think the use of a central website is not the right approach. Instead, the search should be distributed too:\nthe crawling should be done on the client machine; it should be done in <a href=\"http://taverna.sf.net/\">Taverna</a> or\n<a href=\"http://bioclipse.net/\">Bioclipse</a> instead.</p>\n\n<p>My conclusion: excellent idea, bad implementation.</p>",
      "summary": "I just ran into BioSpider. Unlike ChemSpider, BioSpider crawls the internet (well, this list of sources really) to find information, and depending on what it finds it continues the search. Below is a screenshot of an intermediate point after starting with the InChI of methane:",
      "image": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/assets/images/biospider.png",
      "date_published": "2007-10-29T00:00:00+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2007-10-29T00:00:00+00:00",
      
      
      
      
      
      
      
        "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ]
      
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