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Category Archives: chemistry
CrystalEye: a crystallographic knowledge base looking for collaborators
Egon Willighagen asks about collaboratin on Nick Day’s CrystalEye knowledgebase. I reproduce his post – note that CrystalEye should be able to provide many examples to increase the size of data sets – and then discuss some of the advantages … Continue reading
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scifoo: One chemical per one laptop?
On the Open Knowledge Foundation blog I noticed a call for projects related to One Laptop Per Child (which we saw at scifoo). I’m wondering what we could do in chemistry – there is so much around and so much … Continue reading
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Wiley: your supporting information for chemistry isn't satisfactory
It has become increasingly common for journals to offer – or require – “supporting information” (“supplemental data”, etc.) as an adjunct to the “full-text” article. This is now an essential part of much publications and this post shows how when … Continue reading
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blogging peer-reviewed articles – icons and greasemonkey
One of the features fo having subscribed to planeScifoo is that I am now getting lots of new feeds. I probably shan’t continue some of them, but here Bora highlights something similar to what the chemical blogosphere has been doing. … Continue reading
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Thoughts on the chemical blogosphere
I’ve a few minutes to kill before the shuttle to Scifoo… I believe the chemical blogosphere is among the leaders in domain-specific blogging and I’ll be bouncing this idea off the SciFooCampers (where the blogosphere is seen by many as … Continue reading
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Molecules in Wikipedia and RDF
I’ve just arrived in Mountain View for the Nature Google O’Reilly Foo Camp. Expect either silence (i.e. swamped) or gushings. I doubt I’ll have much time to blog. To keep readers happy here’s Egon making things happen in the world … Continue reading
legacy molecules: 2-fooyl-ethanol?
More thoughts on recovering legacy molecules – this time from names. In journals and elsewhere we frequently come across lists like: 2-chloro-ethanol ClCH2CH2OH 2-fluoro-ethanol FCH2CH2OH 2-phenyl-ethanol C6H5CH2CH2OH These all have a generic representation with “R” groups: RCH2CH2OH Is there a … Continue reading
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OSRA and others; how to retrieve legacy molecular structures
Egon Willighagen blogged this. There is now a real opportunity for the Open Source chemistry community to create high-quality tools for the extraction of molecular information from legacy documents. Besides full-text articles other good areas to look are probably theses … Continue reading
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THANK YOU ELSEVIER!
I have had a simple, positive response from Elsevier on my request to access their data robotically. This is really exciting. THANK YOU ELSEVIER. It deserves capitals. Dear Peter Murray-Rust Thanks for your email. Data is not copyrighted. If you … Continue reading
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Open Access metrics can be simple and fun
Here’s a simple idea for showing how Open a given field of endeavour is (thanks to Peter Suber Measuring the OA Quotient of a research topic): Matt Cockerill, How open is your research area? BMC blog, July 22, 2007. Excerpt: … Continue reading
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