Open Access / Open Data leads to added value

Two companies recently showed two things: less than 1 minute read

Open Lab 2007 results

The results for the Open Lab 2007 are out . I participated in this endeavor as judge, and read 75 of the 486 blog items, focusing on the sections chemistry, blogging, publishing, politics of science, and a number of blog items with few reviews when I passed them. less than 1 minute read

My Open Laboratory 2007 submissions

As promised , here is my list of submission for the Open Laboratory 2007: less than 1 minute read

An R-based genetic algorithm

During my PhD I wrote a simple but effective genetic algorithm package for R. Because there was a bug recently found, and there is interest in extending the functionality, I have set up a SourceForge project called genalg. less than 1 minute read

Last Call for Open Laboratory 2007

Pedro reminded me of the last call for Open Laboratory 2007, which prints the best blog items of 2007 in book form. The list of chemistry contributions is not so large yet, so go ahead and nominate some of cool chemical blog items of the last year. less than 1 minute read

One Billion Biochemical RDF Triples!

That must be a record! Eric Jain wrote on public-semweb-lifesci: less than 1 minute read

Why ODOSOS is important

I value ODOSOS very high: they are a key component of science, and scientific research, though not every scientist sees these importance yet. I strongly believe that scientific progress is held back because of scientific results not being open; it’s putting us back into the days of alchemy, where experiments were like black boxes and procedures kept secretly. It was not until the alchemists started to properly write down procedures that it, as a science, took off. Now, with chemoinformatics in mind, we have the opportunity to write down our procedures in high detail. 1 minute read