Daily Archives: April 4, 2009

Identifiers: why we need them and when CAS and InChI don't mix

I have tried to write this without needing to know chemistry as there is an important political point. I have been involved in InChI since the beginning and I am a great supporter of it. But it’s not a simple … Continue reading

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Chem4Word – aspects of Openness

I’ll now reply to the second part of Rich’s question Rich Apodaca says: April 4, 2009 at 4:49 pm (Edit) Metallocenes? Axial Chirality? Apache/MIT/BSD License? OpenOffice? GitHub? My current understanding is that C4W will be posted on CodePlex when we … Continue reading

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Chem4Word + CML representational power

Rich Apodaca is an original member of the Blue Obelisk and has developed his own chemical authoring tool (ChemWriter 299USD). He’s just posted the rather enigmatic comment… Rich Apodaca says: April 4, 2009 at 4:49 pm (Edit) Metallocenes? Axial Chirality? … Continue reading

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A ramble through alternative chemistry

For many years I used to have a small patch of weeping scalp, but when I came to Cambridge I went to Ray’s barber shop in All Saints’ Passage – he was about 75 and got his politics from the … Continue reading

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Chem4Word – the journey so far

We’ve been very silent about Chem4Word (C4W) for several reasons, but a major one is that I don’t like vapourware. I’ve spent too long in the pharma industry getting high-pitch sales including (ca. late 1980s, all true): “We have a … Continue reading

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library of the future – warming down

I’m winding down on the library of the future theme – I am impatient to tell you about Chem4Word, whether and how we can rescue Cheminformatics from its current position as a pseudoscience, how to do language processing and textmining … Continue reading

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