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I am delighted that Biomed Central – an Open Access publisher (i.e. almost all its content is required to be full Open Access – CC-BY) has adopted and promoted the idea of Open Data. They have done me to honour … Continue reading →

We’ve just run our Workshop in Open bibliography at OKCon: (Open Bibliographic Data Workshopby Peter Murray-Rust, Mark McGillivray & Adrian Pohl). Mark McGillivray has written a great account of the Open Bibliography project, what we have achieved, what the tools … Continue reading →

#wwmm #quixotechem #blueobelisk I do not present software through Powerpoint but through living links and demos. These all worked when they were entered here. All demos decay…   We (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk) have built a wide-ranging series of components to support Open … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #blueobelisk I’ve been invited to talk to a group of cheminformaticians – mainly pharma – at the European Bioinformatics Institute today. The topic of the 3-day meeting is “Open Source”. The simplisitic view of Cheminformatics is: Discover data. This … Continue reading →

#oscar4 #okfn #pantonpapers A little while ago I suggested that we create whitepapers (“Panton Papers”, /pmr/2010/07/24/open-data-the-concept-of-panton-papers/ ) to help our development of open science. We’ve come up with some titles and I’ve drafted one on text-mining /pmr/2011/03/28/draft-panton-paper-on-textmining/ . There’s now … Continue reading →

#oscar4 IMO the OSCAR4 launch was a great success. We had visitors from outside the Unilever Centre and also remotely on Twitter and the streaming video. The talks were very well presented and were all captured on stream and more … Continue reading →

#oscar4 Follow http://www-pmr.ch.cam.ac.uk/wiki/OSCAR4_Launch for all news and URLs (live stream). Hashtag #oscar4. To introduce the launch of OSCAR4 I will give a short timeline and hopefully credit those who have made contributions. When I joined the Unilever centre I had … Continue reading →

#oscar4 As we’ve said OSCAR4 is a set of library components that can be reconfigured in many ways (rather than a single monolithic application). On Wednesday (in Cambridge or remotely) we’ll be looking at how to bolt the bits together. … Continue reading →

#oscar4 On Wednesday we are launching OSCAR4 (/pmr/2011/04/08/oscar4-launch/) . OSCAR4 has involved a very large amount of work (“refactoring”) which has resulted in some change to the surface functionality and a huge change to the architecture. What does that mean? … Continue reading →

#quixotechem #nwchem #jumboconverters As I’ve mentioned (/pmr/2011/04/09/nwchem-a-fully-open-source-compchem-code-from-pnnl/ ) I now see NWChem as my flagship project for the Open Source Quixote (http://quixote.wikispot.org/Front_Page ) project to create an open source semantic framework for computational chemistry. I was really flattered and encouraged … Continue reading →