• Programming in the Life Sciences #3: the assessment

    Now that I have wrote out the goals, what they students will practically do, and how to get started with the Open PHACTS platform, I will list how we will assess the students:
  • Programming in the Life Sciences #2: accounts and API keys

    I have outlined the scope of the six-day course: the students will learn to program while hacking on the Open PHACTS’ Linked Data API (LDA). The first step is to get an account for the LDA. I have already done that to save time. But these are the steps to take. You go to https://dev.openphacts.org/signup:
  • Programming in the Life Sciences #1: a six day course

    Our department will soon start the course Programming in the Life Sciences for a group of some 10 students from the Maastricht Science Programme. This is the first time we give this course, and over the next weeks I will be blogging about this course. First, some information. These are the goals, to use programming to:
  • "Emerging practices for mapping and linking life sciences data using RDF"

    The “Emerging practices for mapping and linking life sciences data using RDF” (doi:10.1016/j.websem.2012.02.003) is now available online, where I contributed a section on the original workflow for creating ChEMBL triples, and contributed to the section about open licensing, referring to CCZero and the Panton Principles. Happy reading!
  • ChEMBL 13 as RDF

    Update: this work is now described in this paper .
  • CiTO / CiteULike: publishing innovation

    Readers of my blog know I have been using the Citation Typing Ontology, CiTO (doi:10.1186/2041-1480-1-S1-S6). I allows me to see how the CDK is cited and used . CiteULike is currently adding more CiTO more functionality, which they started doing almost one and a half years ago.