Category Archives: chemistry

The Blue Obelisk

Posted on September 8, 2006 by pm286

I’ve promised to write about the Blue Obelisk and I’ve only got a short time before cycling home but at least I need to point to this before the ACS meeting. Chemoinformatics and much chemical computation is seriously broken. The … Continue reading →

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ACS Presentation – Part II

Posted on September 8, 2006 by pm286

The first part of my presentation dealt with the technical issues surrounding semantic chemistry. This page contains predictions – they are general enough that you don’t have to be a chemist to appreciate them. I’ll probably try to cover some … Continue reading →

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ACS presentation Part I

Posted on September 8, 2006 by pm286

Edward Tufte said in his recent book that one shouldn’t use Powerpoint to present information, but Word. Although I am not a fan of Word (see later posts) I agree with the message. So this is the first part of … Continue reading →

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Mashups and CB2

Posted on September 7, 2006 by pm286

There’s a regular monthly meeting in Cambridge on Thursdays in the Internet cafe called CB2. Organised with enormous energy by Rufus Pollock – see the Open Knowledge Foundation link. Mostly geeks, we have a common theme of wanting to liberate … Continue reading →

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Open Source, Open Data and the science commons

Posted on September 7, 2006 by pm286

In this post I content that the chemical information cycle is broken – to the detriment of the chemical and general commons. I’ll explain what that means. Robert Terry, Wellcome Trust, is widely know for his advocacy of Open Access. … Continue reading →

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Tenderbutton – A chemist's blog

Posted on September 3, 2006 by pm286

I was pointed today to a really impressive blog: http://blog.tenderbutton.com The author describes himself as: My name is Dylan Stiles and I work in the Trost lab at sunny Stanford University. I’m engaged in the total synthesis of two natural … Continue reading →

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Open Molecular Information

Posted on September 3, 2006 by pm286

Last week we had a young doctor friend staying with us and because he was interested in infection the conversation turned to MRSA. If you don’t what this is, look it up in Wikipedia under MRSA (this hyperlink should work). … Continue reading →

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