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Peer Review – I write unacceptable code

I have so much stored up that I need to write about that I shall be triggered by random occurrences. On Thursday Joe told me (and colleagues) that some of the code I had written in our Microsoft Chem4Word project … Continue reading

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Wellcome gets tough on Open Access depositions

When one is active in an area (in this case Open Access) it’s often difficult to see how important it is from outside. So I was delighted to get an internal email to all staff making it clear that it … Continue reading

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Restarting posts

I am reinvigorated to start posting again, and there will be another post shortly. I stopped posting last year for a number of reasons, some of which may seem strange and some of which may make sense to other bloggers. … Continue reading

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Recent developments

I have been offline for some time because a lot has been going on. As I mentioned earlier we have had 5 students over this summer and they have been phenomenal. Not that previous students – such as Joe Townsend … Continue reading

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Update

I have been off the air for some time because of travel and also technical problems with the blog which Jim Downing has solved (thanks). <p/> I hope to blog soon about data, repositories and escience among various topics.

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ESOF2008 Alma Swan's session

Alma Swan has organised the session at Barcelona ESOF : (http://www.esof2008.org/fileadmin/media/programme/scientific_programme_preliminary_abstracts.pdf) [Saturday, 18th July, 1630). Sharing scientific data: who benefits? Alma Swan, Key Perspectives Ltd, United Kingdom Abstract: Digital datasets—text-based, numeric, audio, video or image-based—form the output of all scientific … Continue reading

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ESOF

We have been so busy with our summer program – semantic authoring and capturing of chemistry – that I haven’t had a breathing space. I’ll be blogging more about that. However a change of scene – tomorrow I’m in Barcelona … Continue reading

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John Sulston calls for reform of IPR policy

Whether you support Open Access and Open Data or believe that Closed Access and patents are the best way of promoting high quality science, there is no doubt about the fact that restrictions on access to IPR area major drain … Continue reading

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In praise of Undergraduates

One of the highlights of my year is our summer program of undergraduate projects in the Centre. We’ve done this for six years and each student spends 8-10 weeks working on projects in Molecular Informatics. I have been astonished and … Continue reading

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Open Access Data Repositories

Peter Suber has been working with colleagues to create a Wiki of Open Access Data repositories. From his blog List of data repositories The Open Access Directory (OAD) list of Data repositories is now open for community editing. OAD is … Continue reading

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