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Scraped/typed into Arcturus Jean-Claude Bradley has made a useful contribution to the Green Chain Reaction (http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2010/08/green-solvent-metric-on-solvent.html )… Even if you aren’t a chemist, you should be able to follow the logic In the spirit of contributing to Peter Murray-Rust’s initiative … Continue reading →

Scraped/typed into Arcturus Mat Todd has made some great suggestions about what we can measure in the Green Chain reaction. Here’s his comments on the Etherpad (http://okfnpad.org/solo10 ) and my additions. Please comment and add extra ideas. I’ll show some … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus We are making excellent progress. Some things go faster, some slower as always. We now need a second round of volunteers. I’ll detail what we have done and what needs to be done this week. Most of … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus Earlier I asked for the compound a patent image represented (EP_2050749A1/0026imgb0032.tif) “Could someone please tell me what the InChI or SMILES or CML is for this compound?” This was a slightly trick question as you have to … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus The first pass of the automatic extraction of chemical information from patents is going well on a mechanical level.   One weekly index has 30-200 appropriate patents. Each has between 0 and 1500 images of chemical relevance … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus There has been quite a lot of discussion over the last days and about the decision by the Journal Of Neuroscience to stop posting supplemental data. This has been reviewed by Heather Piwowar (http://researchremix.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/supplementary-materials-is-a-stopgap-for-data-archiving/ ) with a … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus The Green Chain Reaction will soon be generating a lot of high quality structured data. The question is how and where to store this. To give an idea of the scope let me illustrate this with the … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus We’ve made great progress over the last week on the Green Chain Reaction. Our progress is all being recorded on the Etherpad provided by the Open Knowledge Foundation at thttp://okfnpad.org/solo10. Have a look! And feel free to … Continue reading →

Typed into Arcturus We’ve been bouncing emails around on the Green Chain Reaction coding part of the project and we’ve got to the stage where looking back through emails to see where bits of code got copied in, who was … Continue reading →

Dictated into Arcturus There is an absolutely critical point for the Green Chain Reaction that has been raised by a reader of this blog Anon says: August 12, 2010 at 9:45 am  (Edit) Aren’t most supplementary information files freely available? There … Continue reading →