Commercial QSAR modeling? Sorry, already patented...

QSAR has been patented in 2001 (US patent 20010049585). 1 minute read

Peer reviewed Chemoinformatics: Why OpenSource Chemoinformatics should be the default

The battle for scientific publishing is continuing: openaccess, peer reviewing, how much does it cost, who should pay it, is the data in papers copyrighted, etc, etc. 1 minute read

Metabolomics needs you

Over on Metabolomics In Europe I posted a ad for an open metabolomics position in our group. Go check it out! less than 1 minute read

Going to Science Blogging 2008: London

On Saturday 30th of August I'll be in London attending the Science Blogging 2008 event. The Monday following that, I'll meet friends at the EBI, but Sunday is empty so far. I'd love to meet up that Sunday, so just ping me if interested. Oh, and this blog is using RDFa to markup the event, as discussed here. less than 1 minute read

Chemoinformatics p0wned by cheminformatics...

Noel had a 40 people vote over chemoinformatics versus cheminformatics. What do you think? less than 1 minute read

SVN commit hooks down for CDK and Bioclipse

SourceForge has been playing with system upgrades again, and in an attempt to debug the failing CIA commits on IRC, I reinstalled the hooks for CDK and Bioclipse, so that now all hooks seem to fail, including the email hook… Apparently, it is a known bug, e.g. see this bug report. I assume SF will fix this soon. less than 1 minute read

Moving to Sweden: Improving CDK support in Bioclipse

This autumn I will end my current post-doc position at Plant Research International in the Applied Bioinformatics group and at Biometris (both part of Wageningen University) funded by the Netherlands Metabolomics Center (lot’s of vacancies), where I had a good time, and collaborated in several projects within the NMC with much pleasure. less than 1 minute read