Category Archives: chemistry

semantic chemistry – "dbchempedia" and crystaleye

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

An obvious requirement for the chemical semantic web is that we have chemistry – non-trivial as most is in walled-gardens. But things have really moved in the last hour. I left a message on Martin Walker’s Talk on WP, then … Continue reading →

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ChemZoo properties : treat as dangerous

Posted on May 11, 2007 by pm286

Chemspider has recently replied in depth to my concerns: ChemSpider as a part of Web 2.0 – and what is that Web 2.0 anyways? In this blog I am going to excerpt from another blog (and bolded to identify) regarding … Continue reading →

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Access to and re-use of Open Data in chemistry – impressions

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Continuing the preparation of material for WWW 2007 … It is almost universally held (see Open Data – Wikipedia) that facts cannot be copyrighted. It is common for scientific papers to be accompanied by “supporting information” or “supplemental data”. In … Continue reading →

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Chemical Microformats have arrived some time ago!

Posted on May 9, 2007 by pm286

Egon writes and puts me to shame… Name: Egon Willighagen | E-mail: egon.willighagen@gmail.com | URI: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ | IP: 134.95.200.25The use of microformats in chemistry has already begun:http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2006/12/including-smiles-cml-and-inchi-in.html He suggested this over FOUR MONTHS ago! I probably missed it as I … Continue reading →

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Microformats in the chemical blogosphere – the Chemical Semantic Web has arrived?

Posted on May 8, 2007 by pm286

One of my readers writes privately… Too many acronyms for my poor head in [blog] world. I am beginning to see this as a series of rocks in a swirling sea of T- and F-LAs. People on the solid rocks … Continue reading →

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Christoph CUBIC

Posted on May 6, 2007 by pm286

var imagebase=’file://C:/Program Files/FeedReader30/’; Christoph writes: Christoph Steinbeck: Move to Tuebingen 17:01 06/05/2007, Planet Blue Obelisk After the shutdown of CUBIC, I’ve moved to Tuebingen to the Lehrstuhl of Andreas Zell as a guest lecturer.During the summer semester of 2007 I’m … Continue reading →

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"Open Access" and "low fat"

Posted on May 6, 2007 by pm286

In an earlier post Open Access and Fuzzy Access I challenged the position of “Molbank” as a collection of Open Molecules. The position is that Molbank is “Open Access” but copyrights the articles and imposes special conditions on their re-use … Continue reading →

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Curating data on ChemSpider…should it be supported by the community?

Posted on May 5, 2007 by pm286

I’m replying to a reference from Chemspider to my blog. It’s titled: Curating data on ChemSpider…should it be supported by the community? Posted by: Antony Williams in Quality and Content I extract some of the material below, but the simple … Continue reading →

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Chemical phraseology

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

From the ChemBlog… Writing the intro for papers is silly May 03rd 2007 Posted to Sciency politics I’m starting to write my second paper for JOC, fresh off the heals of my recent JACs submission* (fingers crossed) and I’ve sort … Continue reading →

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Tagging molecules

Posted on May 3, 2007 by pm286

Another of last night’s ideas that I have been beaten to – that’s the power of the blogosphere! Nick Day and I are trying to find a social mechanism for commenting on data – specifically his CrystalEye collection of 60 … Continue reading →

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