Monthly Archives: March 2008

Bioclipse is an Open Source chemo- and bio-informatics toolkit (rich client) developed by Ola Spjuth and colleagues and a wide virtual community (including me). It’s Open Source (LGPL). Under the heading Bioclipse pirated Christoph Steinbeck writes A company called InfoCom, … Continue reading →

Antony Williams reports that CAS has agreed to cooperate with Wikipedia Chemistry on the use of CAS numbers:  A Message of Support and Public Service from the Chemical Abstracts Service […] This week conversations have been ongoing between WP:Chem and … Continue reading →

To a recent post by Glyn Moody (The World’s Leading Anti-Scientific Society) [ largely quoting me so I shan’t repeat it…] [GM] … Clearly, it’s time to kill off this pernicious closed CAS system, which is damaging science, by boycotting … Continue reading →

There has been discussion recently (e.g. CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia Structures and CAS Numbers and the Wikipedia Project: CAS Validation page) about the use of CAS identifiers and possible alternatives. One suggestion is that CAS numbers … Continue reading →

I am delighted to be corrected in my statement about the number of compounds in Wikipedia: chemconnector.com/chemunicating/the-curation-of-almost-5000-structures-on-wikipedia.html (ChemConnnector is written, I think, by Antony Williams, Chemspiderman). […] There are likely legal reasons for a number of these databases to have … Continue reading →

Cameron Neylon picks up the theme of an alternative approach to identifying chemicals (especially in the context of CAS’s blanket refusal to allow normal scientific practice – thed quoting of authority). I reproduce some key quotes and then introduce what … Continue reading →

In a recent post (CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia) I commented on the refusal  of CAS to allow Wikipedia to use the CAS numbers and/or related information obtained from their Scifinder(TM) product. As far as I know … Continue reading →

Antony Williams (Chemspiderman) is actively involved in creating Open chemistry. Here he reveals the limitations imposed by the American Chemical Society on creating Open data. CAS Discourages Using SciFinder to Help Curate Wikipedia Structures and CAS Numbers Posted by: Antony … Continue reading →

Continuing the discussion on this blog Robin Rice Says: March 6th, 2008 at 3:08 pm eThanks for the response to my comments, Peter. Of course you’ve got a lot of issues in there, and I look forward to hearing the … Continue reading →

We work closely with the  IUCr – International Union of Crystallography – one of the scientific unions (see International Council for Science) that has done much to develop new approaches to publication. The IUCr publishes a wide range of journals … Continue reading →