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I have not read the chemical blogosphere for some time (other than Blue Obelisk) and have been catching up with some of this in the plane. This is ChemBark from January and some my specific comments may be out of … Continue reading →

Greg Pearl Says: April 25th, 2007 at 1:08 pm eSo is the World Wide Molecular Matrix planning on Collating data? All I was able to find was chemical structure generation. If you are planning on Collating the data ACD/Labs would … Continue reading →

From the discussion on ChemZoo: Antony Williams Says: April 25th, 2007 at 3:00 pm eHi…banana-biter from ChemZoo here… one more at the chimps tea party. ChemSpider uses third party components for the generation of certain properties. Passing over 10 million … Continue reading →

Chemspider writes: – Name: Monkey at Development | E-mail: valt@chemspider.com | URI: http://www.chemspider.com | IP: 68.33.203.5 | Date: April 24, 2007 Peter, good catch – thanks for reporting. I’ve put a notice that properties are calculated for the main component … Continue reading →

David Bradley has assured me he will take my concerns back to the ChemSpider people. This doesn’t remove them, and I’ll explain why. There is no Open gold standard for chemical information. That’s a historical fact and we have to … Continue reading →

I had a really enjoyable day at Colorado State University yesterday – making a videocast and then giving a hyperpresentation which ranged from repositories to the growing destructive power of organised publishing. At drinks afterwards I made the usual suggestion … Continue reading →

Jean-Claude has started his Open Chemistry experiment (in both senses – chemistry and Open). He will record everything on the Wiki and then – presumably when there is some publishable “golden moment” send the manuscript off. I am floating the … Continue reading →

David Bradley alerted me to Chemspider, an engine which scrapes the web for information on chemical compound information and calculates properties. I blogged yesterday about what it did for sodium chloride. I am slightly sorry to do this as I … Continue reading →

David Bradley wrote: Peter, great to see that WWMM is starting to gain some momentum. I certainly think there are various behavioural properties of chemists that have held many back from taking part in blogs and wikis and general web … Continue reading →

Have had great time today at Colorado State University talking to the Library and Information Scientists. Lost of ideas, especially on the role and construction of Institutional Repositories. I am still revising my views about this and feel that the … Continue reading →