Dutch Summer of Code sponsors a Bioclipse project

The Dutch version of the Google Summer of Code, Programmeerzomer.nl, announced today the five students participating. I was happy to see that Rob Schellhorn was selected with his project proposal for a Ghemical plugin for Bioclipse. Like in the Google original, both the student and the mentoring organization are funded, 3600 and 400 euro respectively. less than 1 minute read

KDE desktop search: Kat, Strigi and Tenor

Desktop searching has become a hot topic (some earlier blogs ), now that years of data accumulated on ones hard disk: PDFs, OpenOffice.org documents, Latex manuscripts, old Java source code, digitized music, and a lot of chemical files. Well, on my hard disk that is. Unlike piles of paper, a computer could search this data, but due to the size an index is required. What’s KDE4 going to offer? 2 minute read

A chemistry extension for spreadsheet(s)

Just wanted to make sure this news made it to the Blue Obelisk Planet too: David Strumfels reported that he extended MS-Excel with CDK functionality . I wonder how difficult it would be to do this with Kspread or Gnumeric? less than 1 minute read

Recent Developments of the Chemistry Development Kit

Recent Developments of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) - An Open-Source Java Library for Chemo- and Bioinformatics (green OA) discusses (reasonably) recent additions to the CDK. It appeared in issue 17 of this years Current Pharmaceutical Design volume, after being too long in the queue after being accepted; but I am happy that it is out now. 1 minute read

Blue Obelisk in Obernai at Chemoinformatics in Europe

Together with Christoph, Christian and Jerome, I will be representing the Blue Obelisk movement on the first First Workshop on Chemoinformatics in Europe with the topic Research and Teaching. Though I wonder what this theme excludes? Development? Can’t imagine that commercials companies will not be represented as usual. Moreover, it will likely include some bioinformatics too, unless you consider that to deal with sequences only. less than 1 minute read

Molecular indexing on the KDE and OS/X desktops

Geoff Hutchinson blogged about his OS/X ChemSpotLight, an indexing tool for chemistry documents. It’s like, but more advanced than, the kfile_chemical and Kat I have been working on (with others) for the KDE desktop (see earlier blog items). 1 minute read

XML validation on Eclipse with Web Tools Platform

Yesterday I installed the Eclipse Web Tools Platform again, and now succesfully, using the Eclipse update mechanism, on my Kubuntu dapper eclipse install. Because it has a validating XML editor, the one last thing I still needed jEdit for. (I do miss the vertical selection feature of jEdit, though.) It signals me of errors, and allows autocompletion. 1 minute read