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More chemistry in KDE
After Kalzium and kfile_chemical , KDE has now be extended with kparts for 3D structure and spectrum display: Kryomol . It is written in C++ and licensed GPL. It supports several chemistry formats, among which quantum chemical formats like Gaussian03, NwChem and ACES, and 3D structures as MDL molefile and XYZ.
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Classpath 0.90 makes the Jmol application run
A few days back, Classpath 0.90 was released, the first release after the 0.20 release. Earlier Classpath releases could run the rendering engine , but running the application failed so far .
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Open source Jmol taking over the world
Earlier I already reported that student text books were picking up Jmol as 3D viewer. Now, Nature Structural & Molecular Biology reports (DOI:10.1038/nsmb0206-93) that they picked it up too, using FirstGlance in Jmol (thanx Peter, for reporting this on the Blue Obelisk mailing list!). And, thanx Eric, for acknowledging the hard work of the Jmol developers.
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Hacking InChI support into postgenomic.com
Earlier I reported about postgenomic.com , and needed some diversion from my manuscript work (could no longer think straight about the article I’m working on). So time for some reading up on new technologies. Timing was perfect, because the source code of postgenomic.com got just uploaded to SourceForge SVN.
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Novel QSAR and QSPR descriptors?
For the past few weeks I have been working on a review article, which will contain a section with new QSAR/QSPR descriptors published in the period 2000-now. Here are a few:
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BlueObelisk: OpenSource, OpenData and OpenStandards
OpenSource, OpenData and OpenStandards are not as strong in chemoinformatics as they are in bioinformatcs, where it is common knowledge that sharing is a good. Today, the JCIM published on the web an article about the Blue Obelisk movement, which promotes these three idealogies.
