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I have frequently quoted the maxim that turning PDF into XML is like turning a hamburger into a cow. But here is a printed PDF turned into a cow (in Denver airport). It’s called “Rhapsody in Moo” – you can … Continue reading →

I was about to post about an idea – “Who is going to W3C2007, Xtech2007 …”, when Jean-Claude Bradley beat me to it. Going to Science Foo Camp I just got an invitation to attend Science Foo Camp in August … Continue reading →

Noel O’Boyle posts: Add quotes from PostGenomic and Chemical Blogspace to journal Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension that allows you to rewrite the HTML of a webpage on-the-fly. Pedro Beltrão was the first to think of adding a link to … Continue reading →

I am delighted to be able to write about OAI-ORE – on whose advisory board I am. I also had the chance recently to have a long discussion with two of the people driving it, Carl Lagoze and Herbert Van … Continue reading →

I am looking for lists (or repositories) of small molecules with connection tables (or machine-parsable molecular structures) which are Open. By Open I mean that anyone can, in principle download, copy or clone part or all of the site, re-use … Continue reading →

I am just relaxing in a hotel in Redmond, WA, US after two week’s very hard work instead of going downtown Seattle and shopping (which I hate unless it is for Obelisks). So the posts are going in all directions … Continue reading →

Jean Clause Bradley posts in Nature Island Review Joanna Scott just wrote a nice little review of what is going on at Nature Island (slurl) on Nature’s Nascent blog since her return from the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago. … Continue reading →

I have blogged about the broken state of chemical information and the lack of semantics in current commercial chemical software and drawing tools. This is exemplified by the amount of incorrect structures received by publishers (and I have talked to … Continue reading →

I ‘ve pent some of the last two days talking with Steve Bryant who runs The PubChem Project. People often think (and I’ve been guilty of this) that there is a lot of junk in Pubchem (although the proportion is … Continue reading →

In Correction/Retraction Notice Noel O’Blog (Noel was in our Centre until recently) shows how the Blue Obelisk Greasemonkey can show a richer view of the chemical literature. The greasemonkey, developed by Noel and others and reported in Blue Obelisk mailing … Continue reading →