• Outscoring old science

    Rich posted a nice quote the other day on the introduction of the forward pass in football some 100 years ago, and linked that to sciences. I commented with the remark that the outscoring is the problem:
  • New InChI software beta: license issues resolved and InChIKey

    The IUPAC/NIST team made a beta release of the next InChI software release:
  • Double-charging your readers: quite unacceptable indeed

    Peter has been doing an excellent job in advocating ODOSOS , and one of his posts even hit Slashdot.
  • A JChemPaint Hack-a-thon

    Niels and I held a JChemPaint hack-a-thon today (the IRC log). We had a quite ambitious agenda:
  • NXClient on Ubuntu Gutsy

    If you, like me, already upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy, and use nxclient for remote login (highly recommended, though proprietary code), you might run into the problem that the login no longer works, returning the message “Cannot find KDE environment.”. Ubuntu’s Lauchpad (generally an excellent service) was rather uncooperative and disregarded a bug report about the problem, I found the solution with grep -ri kde /usr/NX:
  • XCMS on Ubuntu Feisty

    I just installed XCMS 1.9.2 on my Ubuntu system. XCMS is a GPL-ed R package for metabolomics data analysis. Just for the record, you need to install the Feisty packages for NetCDF:
  • JChemPaint too: PNG embedded connectivity tables

    Rich blogged about Firefly embedding MDL molfiles in PNG images , which I found really cool. Rich and Noel later showed how that metadata can be retrieved again , possibly with Python.