Monthly Archives: May 2008

Neil Withers of Nature Chemistry has asked the community what they would like to see. Before answering let me applaud Nature on asking, and I see that the blogosphere has already started. Although I campaign for Open Access I’m more … Continue reading →

A really useful post from Noel O’Blog about chemical depiction and structure diagram generation (SDG). The chemical structure of compounds in “2D diagrams” is often the most important way of communicating chemical information. There is a gradually growing realisation that … Continue reading →

Nature has just published an account of Chemspider after interviewing a number of people. (The Nature report, Geoff Brumfiel and I spent considerable time on the phone but it was too late to include my comments in the article so … Continue reading →

A long post on CrystalEye by Antony Williams. I comment on points that still need answering: ChemSpider Doesn’t Want a Free Lunch but I Discussed CrystalEye Over Coffee With ACS in New Orleans 06:19 06/05/2008, Antony Williams, a n a … Continue reading →

I am DELIGHTED to report that Chemspider has adopted a CC-SA licence for its data. I comment below: ChemSpider Adopts Creative Commons Licenses 05:23 06/05/2008, Antony Williams, Over the past year ChemSpider has been challenged over the nature of our … Continue reading →

I am still – honestly – completely unable to work out what the proposed boundary between strongOA and weakOA (see copious blog posts recently) . I therefore put forward some testcases and ask those who understand it – especially the … Continue reading →

Glyn Moody takes me to task – with some justification – for suggesting that Word/OOXML is a useful format for archival. I should make it clear that I am not religiously opposed to PDF, just to the present incarnation of … Continue reading →

An email which I’m delighted to blog. [from WP: Metabolomics is the “systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind” – specifically, the study of their small-molecule metabolite profiles.[1] The metabolome represents the collection of … Continue reading →

I was just about to start some hacking, but I’ve just got a comment from Stevan that needs reply. [This blog is not the best medium to carry out this discussion but it seems to be providing something useful.] Parts … Continue reading →