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

Collaborative work with Bioclipse

Ola blogged about something he is working on for Bioclipse2. The next major series of Bioclipse releases will use the RCP-based resource architecture, which allows better integrating with other RCP plugins, such as the Subclipse plugin which allows one to browse Subversion repositories directly in Bioclipse. That is cool! Check out the screenshot he posted in his blog. 1 minute read

Christmas presents...

Our Christmas tree has not been decorated yet, but the presents are there: the BMC Bioinformatics paper on userscripts in life sciences, Bioclipse 1.2.0, a long list of blogs to rate, and a very nice overview from Wendy Warr on workflow environments, discussing and comparing different offerings like Pipeline Pilot, Taverna, and KNIME. 2 minute read

The molecular QSAR descriptors in the CDK

Pending the release of Bioclipse 1.2.0, Ola asked me to do some additional feature implementation for the QSAR feature, such as having the filenames as labels in the descriptor matrix. See also these earlier items: 2 minute read

Test results for the CDK 1.0.x branch

The Chemistry Development Kit has never really been without any bugs, which is reflected in the number of failing JUnit tests. For trunk/ this is today 106 failing tests (live stats). The stable cdk-1.0.x/ branch, however, the number of failing tests is not much lower: 64 failing tests today (live stats). 4 minute read

Open Data getting more recognition

The OD part of ODOSOS is getting more and more attention, and it seems that Peter’s Open Data battle is paying off (see his original OpenData article in Wikipedia): an open data specific license has reached the beta stage (see this announcement). 1 minute read

I don't blame Individuals in Commercial Chemoinformatics

The comment I left in the ChemSpider blog, was probably a bit blunt. ChemSpider announced having licensed software from OpenEye. I have seen such announcements more often, but am intrigued about the nature of such announcements. Is it bad that ChemSpider is using OpenEye software? Certainly not. But it is surprising that they “announced today they had entered into an agreement that will allow the incorporation of a number of OpenEye’s products into ChemZoo’s online chemistry database and property prediction service, ChemSpider” (emphasis mine). 4 minute read