Chiral Molecules: how cool is the SEM picture?

I just found my student thesis in Organic Chemistry from my Nijmegen education. It’s in Dutch, but I’ll explore if I can upload this to Radboud University’s DSpace. But I could not resist sharing this nice scanning electron microscope picture :) Look at those amphiphiles show a nice chiral ribbon! 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

Converting JSON to RDF/XML with Groovy

Mark’s new CCO/RDF hosting functionality (see also my post two days ago) requires RDF/XML format, so I updated my code to convert the Chempedia Substances data into RDF/XML instead of N3 (I have asked Rich to put a new download link online). This is the Groovy code I used: less than 1 minute read