Chemo::Blogs #1

There are a number of links I wanted to blog about, but never really had time for yet. Here’s a short review of a them. Bio::Blogs is a series of summary/review articles of bio related blogs, and definately worth putting in your aggregator. Maybe someone is interested in setting up a Chemo::Blogs for chemistry blogs?

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Complex PDB documents using the Bioclipse ChildResourceCreator

Some time ago I blogged about the ChildResourceCreator extension point in Bioclipse and hinted as using that for PDB files. which contain 3D molecular models, sequences and bibliographic information. Using the new extension point, Bioclipse now treats PDB files as complex documents, creating child resources for the 3D molecular model (using the CDK plugin), and a sequence resource (using the BioJava plugin).

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"Jmol and the CDK add powerful chemical capabilities", says Munos in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery

Bernard Munos at Eli Lilly & Co. wrote up a lengthy analysis on open source in drug discovery in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery: Can open-source R&D reinvigorate drug research? (DOI:10.1038/nrd2131). When scanning the article I saw this quote:

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Chemical Archeology: OSCAR3 to NMRShiftDB.org

Chemical Archeology (see Christoph’s comment) is the process of extracting chemical information from old journal articles. Some time ago, Peter Corbett from the group of Peter Murray-Rust visited the CUBIC to talk to us about Oscar3 which can do just that. That day, we already hooked OPSIN into Bioclipse .

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BioJava 1.5 beta released

Martin Szugat reported that a beta for BioJava 1.5 has been released. New features include: a new biojavax package with extension on the basic functionlity, such as the RichSequence.IOTools and the RichSequence object; a genetic algorithm library; features that allow manipulation of 3D structure files and objects; and non-HMM implementations of the NW and SW alignment algorithms. The announcement also mentions a new package for handling external processes (org.biojava.utils.process); I am wondering what that is about. I will upload this beta to Bioclipse trunk/bc_biojava/ shortly, so that we can play with it.

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Calculating geometrical properties with the CDK

ケムインフォマティクスに虚空投げ runs a story on how to calculate geometrical properties of a 3D structure using CDK’s ForceFieldTools. This class contains a few methods to calculate distances between atoms and angles between bonds.

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R News special issue on chemistry

R News just released a special issue on the use of the versatile statistics program R in chemistry. It features six articles amongst which one by Rajarshi Guha on the CDK-R bridge, and one by my supervisor and me on the use of self-organizing maps to cluster crystal structures.

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