Yearly Archives: 2008

Three independent events have made me re-ask the question – where do we get our computing from? They are: A visit to the Barcelona supercomputing centre. We had a personal tour during the COST D37 visit – thanks very much … Continue reading →

I got a mail this morning about an article in Cell: Analysis India Takes an Open Source Approach to Drug Discovery Open source software may have been around for 17 years, but using an open source model to speed up … Continue reading →

Dorothea Salo at the University of Wisconsin is involved with the Institutional Repository – she is outspoken about librarianship and repositories so I hesitate to label her with either label. On her blog (Caveat Lector) she has created a fictional … Continue reading →

I had hoped to get to the OKF’s Visualisation Workshop but had problems on the Continent so had to miss. Here’s a report: After the first Open Visualisation Workshop 14:47 26/05/2008, Jonathan Gray, The first Open Visualisation Workshop took place … Continue reading →

I’m interested in the nmrdb database and toolkit for NMR spectra. I don’t know how long this has been going, but I have only known about it for a day. I used it to predict a spectrum (NMR Prediction through … Continue reading →

Peter Suber has responded very quickly to my clarification of the connection – or lack of it – between Green OA and Open Data. He has provided some very useful additional information, and I think we are in more or … Continue reading →

Chemspider recently reported (NMR Prediction Now Available Via ChemSpider) a new NMR service at nmrdb.org. Our OSCAR tool is able to extract large numbers of NMR peak lists to I thought I’d try it out. Since our new software can … Continue reading →

Peter Suber has picked up a point that I made at the RSC Open Access Meeting and I’m happy to address it: More on open data in chemistry 15:58 22/05/2008, Peter Suber, Peter Murray-Rust, RSC Open Access – what I … Continue reading →

I missed this in the chemical blogosphere and was alerted by Peter Suber: Facilitating the exchange of chemical data 18:14 21/05/2008, Peter Suber, PubChem has released the beta of its PUG SOAP (Power User Gateway Simple Object Access Protocol). From … Continue reading →

Chemspider describes the NMR prediction service provided by the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. NMR Prediction Now Available Via ChemSpider 00:56 22/05/2008, Antony Williams, […]. The NMR prediction service is provided by Luc Patiny’s group out of Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale … Continue reading →