Blog Comments? No, Peer Reviews!

Via Carbon-Based Curiosities’s blogroll I found a number of new blogs (on top of the list I posted yesterday), and just added them to Chemical blogspace. This is something I found in Infiniflux!:

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Comments on 'Rethinking software access'

bbgm was rethinking software access. The blog observes:

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More CDK-Ruby users...

Via Rich’ blog, I was informed about the work by goesLightly on CampDepict, a Ruby-based application which uses the CDK for SMILES parsing and 2D diagram generation. With cdk-20060714.jar it’s using pretty ancient code, and I have not seen a screenshot.

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Quality Publishing: EndNote versus InChIs

Some publishers hesitate a bit, but others go full speed ahead into the electronic publishing era. Noel commented on my post about OA/OD inviting added value:

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Open Access / Open Data leads to added value

Two companies recently showed two things:

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"Make all research results CC-BY"

While I do not agree in details on the statement made by Klaus, I agree with his intentions, and happy to propagate the mantra, like others did before me:

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The MetWare developers meeting in Halle

Today starts the MetWare developers meeting, hosted by Steffen Neumann, at the Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie. Steffen’s group and the Applied Bioinformatics group where I now work, are co-developing an opensource platform for metabolomics data management. Not really a full LIMS system, but a system to keep track of all the facts about the experiments and samples we would use when analyzing the data in order to find new chemistry, biomarkers, etc (see this earlier blog too). Good news is, that BioAssist is developing a support platform for the NMC, and plans to use MetWare as a main component.

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