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

John Wilbanks replies to the ChemSpider/OpenData discussion

Not long after I posted my view on things, John posted his reply on the ChemSpider/OpenData discussion. His comment was merely to illustrate an internal advice to some organization, which got accidentally leaked. Anyway, a must read, with two good links to further reading on open data licensing. 1 minute read

Blog Comments? No, Peer Reviews!

Via Carbon-Based Curiosities’s blogroll I found a number of new blogs (on top of the list I posted yesterday), and just added them to Chemical blogspace. This is something I found in Infiniflux!: less than 1 minute read

Open Access / Open Data leads to added value

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

The CDK/Metabolomics/Chemometrics Unconference results

As announced earlier, Miguel, Velitchka, Christoph and I held a small CDK/Metabolomics/Chemometrics unconference. We started late, and did not have an evening program, resulting in not overly much results. However, we did do molecular chemometrics. 1 minute read

Legal Advice Needed: the NIH restricting access to our CC-licensed research results

In reply to Peter’s news that the NIH’s PubMed Central (PMC) does not allow machine retrieval of content, I was wondering about this section in the CC license of much of the PMC content, such as our paper on userscripts (section 4a of the CC-BY 2.0): 2 minute read