• Jul 15, 2010

    Cb: New Blogs #13

    The Cb software is still holding… I jettinsoned the old post cache, which speeded up the processing of blogs considerably, but the system just doesn’t scale right. Yet, Euan has done a great job, and the Cb site has now been online for some three years! Here are some new blogs included in the aggregation and analysis: 1 minute read
  • Feb 19, 2010

    Open Data: the Panton Principles

    The announcement of the Panton Principles is the big news today, though Peter already spoke about them in May last year (see coverage on FriendFeed and Twitter). The four principles list in their short versions: 4 minute read
  • Nov 21, 2009

    SWAT4LS: "Linking Open Drug Data to Cheminformatics and Proteochemometrics"

    Please find below the presentation I gave today at SWAT4LS : less than 1 minute read
  • Nov 19, 2009

    ChemPedia RDF #1: the SPARQL end point

    Well, you might spot a pattern here; yes, another chemical SPARQL end point (actually, it shares the end point with the Solubility data). This time around Rich’s ChemPedia. Taking advantage of the CC0-licensed downloads , I have created a small Groovy script (using this JSON library) to convert the ChemPedia JSON into Notation3: 1 minute read
  • Sep 17, 2009

    Really free chemistry books

    With pleasure I read Analogue or Digital? - Both, Please. Funnily, I just created MP3 (or, preferably Ogg Vorbis, superior but hardly any support by commercial companies, who rather seem to pay license fees) directly from the CD. 1 minute read
  • Aug 21, 2009

    Bioclipse and SPARQL end points #2: MyExperiment

    RDF and SPARQL are two really useful Open Standards. Bioclipse-RDF is a plugin for Bioclipse that provide RDF functionality, among which using remote SPARQL end points. 3 minute read
  • Aug 17, 2009

    The Social Web does not wait for Bioclipse... here comes Google Wave

    Google Wave is going to change the web. It’s the end of Google Docs, and likely many other services. It’s going to be Open Source and being a Wave Provider will not be restricted to Google. This will be enough to make this a success. If you haven’t watched the full video demo yet, please have a look yourself: less than 1 minute read