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Oscar4 command line utilities
One goal of my three month project is to take Oscar4 to the community. We want to get it used more, and we need a larger development community. Oscar4 and the related technologies do a good, sometimes excellent, job, but have to be maintained, just like any other piece of code. To make using it easier, we are developing new APIs, as well as two user-oriented applications: a Taverna 2 plugin , and command line utilities. The Oscar4 Java API has slightly evolved in the last three weeks, removing some complexity. In this post, I will introduce the command line utilities. -
TTT it is
The fact that Piet Hein said it, gives it an extra (fourth) dimension. Things Take Time. -
CiteULike CiTO Use Case #1: Wordles
Last month I reported a few things I missed in CiteULike. One of them was support for CiTO (see doi:10.1186/2041-1480-1-S1-S6), a great Citation Typing Ontology. -
Calculating molecular descriptors with OpenTox
While working during office hours on Oscar , I am also trying to finish up some work left from Uppsala. One such thing is the Bioclipse-OpenTox project (see Using Bioclipse to upload data to an OpenTox server and Oxford, August 2010: eCheminfo Predictive ADME & Toxicology 2010 Workshop ). Today I finished calculating molecular descriptor values with OpenTox servers: -
Algorithm or Model: OpenTox API quiz
Nina (who still does not seem to blog) wrote up this interesting question, triggered by the OpenTox API ontology: -
Oscar4 Java API: chemical name dictionaries
Besides getting Oscar used by ChEBI (hopefully via Taverna ), my main task in my three month Oscar project is to refactor things to make it more modular, and remove some features no longer needed (e.g. an automatically created workspace environment). Clearly, I need to define a lot of new unit tests to ensure my assumptions on how to code works are valid.
