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What is Data and what should be Open?

What is Data and what should be Open? Continue reading

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Web Democracy through mySociety

Web Democracy through mySociety Continue reading

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Can you help OPSIN with disambiguating chemical names?

Can you help OPSIN with disambiguating chemical names? Continue reading

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Can we create Web Democracy for the UK?

Can we create Web Democracy for the UK? Continue reading

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Should the Foology Society sell its journals to commercial publishers

Should the Foology Society sell its journals to commercial publishers Continue reading

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The Panton Principles: A breakthrough on data licensing for public science?

The Panton Principles: A breakthrough on data licensing for public science? Continue reading

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ICE is working

ICE is working Continue reading

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OPSIN: why it can become the de facto name2structure

In a previous post I reviewed our chemical language processing tools – OSCAR and OPSIN. This post updates progress on OPSIN, the IUPACName2Structure converter. Why do we need a name2structure converter? It’s because chemists use language to communicate the identities … Continue reading

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funding models for software, OSCAR meets OMII

In a previous post I introduced our chemical natural language tools OSCAR and OPSIN. They are widely used, but in academia there is a general problem – there isn’t a simple way to finance the continued development and maintenance of … Continue reading

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OPSIN and OSCAR – Chemical language processing

This blog is about new developments in our chemical language processors OSCAR and OPSIN and about how OMII (eScience) and we are taking them forward.  WE also have a JISC project with NacTEM – CheTA and I’ll write more later … Continue reading

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