"Make all research results CC-BY"

While I do not agree in details on the statement made by Klaus, I agree with his intentions, and happy to propagate the mantra, like others did before me: less than 1 minute read

The MetWare developers meeting in Halle

Today starts the MetWare developers meeting, hosted by Steffen Neumann, at the Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie. Steffen’s group and the Applied Bioinformatics group where I now work, are co-developing an opensource platform for metabolomics data management. Not really a full LIMS system, but a system to keep track of all the facts about the experiments and samples we would use when analyzing the data in order to find new chemistry, biomarkers, etc (see this earlier blog too). Good news is, that BioAssist is developing a support platform for the NMC, and plans to use MetWare as a main component. 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

T plus 51 hours: a short photo impression

I normally do not do these kinds of blog items, but, in reply to Christoph’s blog, here’s an overview of the ceremony (see also T-26 and T+18): less than 1 minute read

T plus 18 hours: dr and preparing for the afterparty, umm ^w^w^w, CDK/Metabolomics/Chemometrics unconference

I am doctor now; I shall now be addressed as weledelzeergeleerde Egon; translating to something like quite-noble-very-knowledgeable, hahahaha. I’ll put up a few photo’s of the ceremony, which is actually quite formal at the Radboud University, later. 1 minute read

T minus 26 hours: defending open source chemoinformatics (and more)

In about 26 hours from now, I will be defending my PhD thesis. Follow that link to read the summary; I was thinking if publishing my introduction and discussion (the rest has been published in peer-reviewed journals) on Nature Precedings; would that be a good idea? Otherwise, I’ll post it in my blog. If you just happen to want to attend the public defense, it’s here: less than 1 minute read