My FOAF network #2: XSLT for a HTML GUI

Because the ACS meeting where Henry will present something about FOAF in chemistry, is nearing very fast now (here’s the first blog it this series), it becomes urgent to beef up the Blue Obelisk FOAF network, now consisting of 7 members. All do now show up in the FOAFExplorer:

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Metabolomics Ontologies: SKOS-ified the ArMet specification

The MetWare project is going to make use of ontology technologies to control the content of the database, and a first step is to convert our MetWare database design into something using a formal ontology language. I have played with OWL in the past (see for example its use in Bioclipse), but was not overly happy with it in all situations.

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Jane, find me interesting journals, please.

Bioinformatics just published a paper from Schuemie and Kors (Erasmus University/NL, BioSemantics group): Jane: suggesting journals, finding experts (doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn006):

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TODO: April 2nd, defend my PhD work

In 4.5 weeks, on Wednesday April 2 (13:30 precisely, Aula, Comeniuslaan 2, Nijmegen) I will publicly defend my PhD work performed in the Analytical Chemistry group of Prof. Lutgarde Buydens at the Radboud University Nijmegen:

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Where's the maize genome torrent?!?

/. just posted a story about the maize genome just published, for which the sequences can be downloaded from this FTP site. The files are not that large at all. But it makes me wonder… where are the .torrent files for the sequenced genomes? Here’s Davids catch on the story.

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CDK is now available from your nearest Debian mirror

Some days have passed, and the Debian mirrors have now picked up the CDK package (unstable only so far), allowing you to sudo aptitude install libcdk-java from your favorite local mirror. The details are available from this packages.debian.org/libcdk-java page. The fact that it is listed as contrib is a small mistake; the package is really main material.

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CDK close to entering Debian

Michael Koch (aka man-di) and Daniel Leidert (as part of the pkg-java team) have worked on packaging the CDK. The ran into some issues, such as the CDK build system not perfectly compatible with the Debian java libraries in /usr/share/java. Both detection of the available libraries as well as putting them in the classpath, caused trouble with the CDBS-based build system wrapping around the Ant build.xml (note the many commit this weekend ;).

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