ChemPedia-RDF #2: Kasabi

Kasabi is a new, RDF hosting service by Talis. It’s still in beta, and I have been testing their beta service with the RDF version I created of ChemPedia Substances (the now no longer existing cool web service from MetaMolecular to draw and name organic molecules). 2 minute read

From the archives: my ICCS 2005 poster

Julio and Gert placed their ICCS 2011 work online, and today I was going through old CDs (see From the archives: Chemical Web, and the CDK in 2004 and Chiral Molecules: how cool is the SEM picture?). I also ran into my ICCS 2005 poster, and because that too was before I started blogging, I never posted it online. So, here it is, based on my thesis : less than 1 minute read

ChEMBL 09 as RDF

Update 2021-02: this post is still the second-most read post in my blog. Welcome! Some updates: less than 1 minute read

Groovy Cheminformatics...

Update: the fourth edition is out. 1 minute read

GitHub Tip: download commits as patches

Some time ago, the brilliant GitHub people gave me the following tip. Rajarshi is lazy, and might find it interesting. By appending .patch to the commit URL, a commit can easily be downloaded as patch. That way, developers can easily download it with wget or curl and apply it locally with git am, without having the fetch the full repository. less than 1 minute read

The 9th International Conference on Chemical Structures (ICCS)

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Text mining chemistry from Dutch or Swedish texts

Oscar is a text miner. It mines in text for chemistry. Oscar4 is the next iteration of Oscar code that I worked on in the past three months, with Lezan, Sam, and David. I blogged about aspects of Oscar4 at several occasions: 3 minute read