Context help in Bioclipse

The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) is very powerfull, and takes a lot of architectural things of your hand when developing a bio- and chemoinformatics GUIs. Bioclipse is based on it. One thing the RCP offers is a Help View which works with plain (X)HTML files, and one neat feature is the context help. It is help shown in the Help View when one focused on a specific GUI element. less than 1 minute read

Matrix support in Bioclipse

With chemometrics in mind (QSAR, data mining, …), I have started working on matrix support in Bioclipse, because the matrix is the important step between (bio-)molecular content and statistical analysis. I implemented this such that the actual matrix implementation can be freely chosen, that is, bc_statistical provides a IMatrixImplementation extension point. The plugin bc_jama provides a JAMA based extension for this, but other implementations are possible, and possibly useful. 1 minute read

AVI movies of CMLRSS howto in Bioclipse

David Strumfels posted news about the Useful Chemistry CMLRSS feed . He explains how this feed can be accessed using Jmol and Bioclipse. The latter are accompanied by two AVI movies: one about creating a new OPML file, and one about accessing the CMLRSS file from the OPML. less than 1 minute read

New chemistry-on-the-desktop blog

I started a spin-off blog earlier this week: kemistry desktop environment. It will deal with integration of chemistry on opensource desktops, with KDE as one of them. Today, it features an overview of earlier blogs on the subject in this new blog. less than 1 minute read

KDE4 keyword support mockups

In reply to interesting comments to my previous blog on Strigi and xAttr support in KDE4, I would like to suggest the following mockups, which I would find very useful. The deal with the ability to store keywords, for example, not but necessarily using xAttr. I have no idea on how to implement these mockups, so any help or pointers are appreciated. 1 minute read

Text mining for chemistry using OSCAR3

Peter Corbett from Peter Murray-Rust’s group at the Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics visited Christoph Steinbeck’s junior Research Group on Molecular Informatics at the CUBIC today, and spoke about the status of Oscar3, a chemistry text mining program with the Artistic License. Oscar3, the successor of version 1 and 2, can detect and extract molecular structures and experimental details from plain text articles, using a variety of text mining techniques. less than 1 minute read

Strigi gets kfile plugin support

With some help, I got the kfile stream analyzer for Strigi working. This means that Strigi will now index the meta data fields defined by the kfile-chemical plugins. less than 1 minute read