Yearly Archives: 2008

Here’s a diversion – as I am sat watching England lose to New Zealand… (Note that I read this without University access as it’s easier to realise what it’s like not to have it). I’m interested in how easy or … Continue reading →

For some reason the WordPress software has been stripping the paragraph markup from the posts – they show fine in the editor and local viewer but are stripped when published. I’ll re-edit as many back as I have time for … Continue reading →

I was at Nature yesterday and talked to Matt Brown who runs Nature Network. He’s setting up a meeting – see Science Blogging Conference: Full Steam Ahead . The date seems to have crystallised on 2008-08-30 in London at the … Continue reading →

Ben Goldacre (The Guardian columnist on “Bad Science”) has unearthed a superb interchange between a scientist and the creationists. Richard Lenski’s replies are tours de force and quite apart from rebutting the criticisms they could be read by undergraduate scientists … Continue reading →

The Crystallography Open Dataase is an early and excellent example of the way that a community can start to help itself and make its data open I’ve taken most of my information from the website (although I have also met … Continue reading →

I had the pleasure of meeting Mat Todd in Sydney this year – a very pleasant day. Mat’s an organic chemist and very keyed into the ideas of semantic publication, sharing information, etc. He runs a blog – the Synaptic … Continue reading →

I always enjoy having visitors to the Unilever Centre and encourage people to visit. Yesterday we had a visit from ca 16 staff and Masters students from the Pratt Institute in New York. They were here as part of a … Continue reading →

The main theme of the current posts is to show how Open publication of data aids scientific research. Our particular domain is chemical crystallography, but these posts contains ideas which I hope have wider applicability and I will skim over … Continue reading →

There has been a lengthy correspondence on the SimBioSys blog about the availability of crystallographic data frm the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC). It raises general concerns about access to scientific data, refers to this blog, and puts in focus … Continue reading →

In a previous post ( CrystalEye links in Chemspider) and links I discussed the information and meta-information in Chemspider relating to an entry in CrystalEye. I took the first one in the collection. [I skip the second as I believe … Continue reading →