• ChemPedia-RDF #2: Kasabi

    Kasabi is a new, RDF hosting service by Talis. It’s still in beta, and I have been testing their beta service with the RDF version I created of ChemPedia Substances (the now no longer existing cool web service from MetaMolecular to draw and name organic molecules).
  • ChEMBL 09 as RDF

    Update 2021-02: this post is still the second-most read post in my blog. Welcome! Some updates:
  • GitHub Tip: download commits as patches

    Some time ago, the brilliant GitHub people gave me the following tip. Rajarshi is lazy, and might find it interesting. By appending .patch to the commit URL, a commit can easily be downloaded as patch. That way, developers can easily download it with wget or curl and apply it locally with git am, without having the fetch the full repository.
  • Converting JSON to RDF/XML with Groovy

    Mark’s new CCO/RDF hosting functionality (see also my post two days ago) requires RDF/XML format, so I updated my code to convert the Chempedia Substances data into RDF/XML instead of N3 (I have asked Rich to put a new download link online). This is the Groovy code I used:
  • ChemWriter, Google Chrome, and Many Eyes in Open Source

    Linus’ law:
  • CiteULike CiTO Use Case #1: Wordles

    Last month I reported a few things I missed in CiteULike. One of them was support for CiTO (see doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/2041-1480-1-S1-S6), a great Citation Typing Ontology.
  • A list of things I miss in CiteULike

    AJCann posted a blog today about what he doesn’t like about Mendeley. Abhishek replied that he does not like people complain about one tool, instead of pointing out a good alternative. Mendeley has two alternatives, Zotero and CiteULike (there is also Connotea, but got behind in evolution).