BridgeDb NWO grant update #1: first steps

Last year, Denise, Tina, Marvin, and I received an NWO Open Science grant (203.001.121) to improve the long running BridgeDb project, originally developed by Martijn van Iersel (see doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-5). Helena joined our group as research software engineer and will work part-time on this grant. We started two weeks ago, so time for an update of results: 1 minute read

BioHackathon Europe 2021 #1: CiTO annotations in BioHackrXiv

Serendipity. I did not plan this hack at the BioHackathon Europe 2021 but it happened anyway. Based on earlier work in the Journal of Cheminformatics, extending on the work by Krewinkel et al. I looked into the idea of using the Lua filter for BioHackrXiv, a preprint server for BioHackathons. Actually, I started by looking at the Citation Styling Language file used by the BioHackrXiv tools. But that was just wrong. 1 minute read

Scholarly journals should use "Archived on" instead of "Accessed on"

Publishing habits changes very slowly, too slowly. The whole industry is incredibly inert, which can lead to severe frustration as it did for me. But sometimes small changes can do so much. 1 minute read

Downloading all currently released BridgeDb identifier mapping databases

The BridgeDb project (doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-5) (and ELIXIR recommended interoperability resource) has several aims, all around identifier mapping: 2 minute read

CiTO updates #3: third paper in the collection and updated Scholia patch

Last week the third paper got published in the Citation Typing Ontology Collection and this weekend I finished adding the citation annotations to Wikidata. less than 1 minute read

CiTO updates #2: annotation migration to Wikidata and first Scholia patch

During the time of the editorial about the Journal of Cheminformatics Citation Typing Ontology (CiTO) Pilot I already worked out a model to add CiTO annotation in Wikidata. It looks like this for the first research article with annotation: 1 minute read

SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, and Open Science

WP4846 that I started on March 16. It will see a massive overhaul in the next weeks. Voices are getting stronger over how important Open Science is. Insiders have known the advantages for decades. We also know the issues in the transition, but the transition has been steady. Contributing to Open Science is simple: there are plenty of project where you can contribute without jeopardizing your own research (funding or prestige). Myself, my small contributions have been done without funding too. But I needed to do something. I have been mostly self-quarantined since March 6, with only very few exception. And I’m so done with it. Like so many other people. It won’t stop me wearing masks when I go shopping (etc). 6 minute read