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

Semantic Web features in Bioclipse 2.2

Ola is releasing Bioclipse 2.2.0 today, and asked me to show case the semantic web functionality in Bioclipse. I realized that I do not have a nice page showing the semantic web overview. But I did blog a lot about RDF functionality, so here’s a list of pointers: 1 minute read

Semantic Chemistry with the Resource Description Framework

First Call for Papers Semantic Chemistry with the Resource Description Framework 240th ACS National Meeting & Exposition Boston, Massachusetts, August 22-26, 2010 CINF Division 1 minute read

Extracting RDF from Chem4Word documents

Joe has released the first Chem4Word demo file, and has written about how to extract the CML with Java and with C#. less than 1 minute read

Installation HOWTO for CDK-Taverna 0.5.1.1 in Taverna 1.7.2

Thomas made a new release of CDK-Taverna for the Taverna 1.7.2 release, which is great news as the previous release was for Taverna 1.7.1. 2 minute read

Warren DeLano and the future of PyMOL

This blog is old and new news. The old news is that Warren passed away at the end of last year, after having successfully shown how OpenSource cheminformatics (and/or bioinformatics) software can be developed in a commercial setting (DeLano Scientific), and PyMol was a huge success. Warren had a SourceForge account (wdelano) for almost 10 years: 2 minute read

Very cold in Uppsala!

There is an image below, that is no longer available, but I have good hopes I will recover it: less than 1 minute read