Oxford...

Yesterday I arrived in Oxford, after a 3.5 hour bus transfer from London Stansted. Long, boring ride (though I might have seen a few red kites , but seeing that they were near extinct, I am wondering what other large bird of prey has strong split tail like a swallow). Showed once more that the UK infrastructure has hardly changed since the 19th century. Enjoying an undergraduate room at one of the colleges. Pretty basic, but makes me feel more like a human than a tourist. Yes!, undergraduate students are human too! One of the advantages is you get an excellent internet connection :) 2 minute read

Open Data: the Panton Principles

The announcement of the Panton Principles is the big news today, though Peter already spoke about them in May last year (see coverage on FriendFeed and Twitter). The four principles list in their short versions: 4 minute read

ChemPedia RDF #1: the SPARQL end point

Well, you might spot a pattern here; yes, another chemical SPARQL end point (actually, it shares the end point with the Solubility data). This time around Rich’s ChemPedia. Taking advantage of the CC0-licensed downloads , I have created a small Groovy script (using this JSON library) to convert the ChemPedia JSON into Notation3: 1 minute read

Really free chemistry books

With pleasure I read Analogue or Digital? - Both, Please. Funnily, I just created MP3 (or, preferably Ogg Vorbis, superior but hardly any support by commercial companies, who rather seem to pay license fees) directly from the CD. 1 minute read

Bioclipse and SPARQL end points #2: MyExperiment

RDF and SPARQL are two really useful Open Standards. Bioclipse-RDF is a plugin for Bioclipse that provide RDF functionality, among which using remote SPARQL end points. 3 minute read

Nature Chemistry improves publishing chemistry: a detailed analysis

Nature Chemistry just released the first issue with a few free papers, like Asymmetric total syntheses of (+)- and (-)-versicolamide B and biosynthetic implications by Miller et al. (DOI:10.1038/nchem.110). 4 minute read

JChemPaint history: CML patches in 1999

There was some talk about the history of chemoinformatics toolkits by Noel and Andrew, which made me wonder on the exact history of Jmol and JChemPaint. Below is the email Christoph dug up from his archives: 1 minute read