Simple, Open Bug Track System: social bookmarking

Jim replied to the request by Anthony in my blog for a bug track system for CrystalEye (in beta), after a discussion on the CIF processing pipeline (see here, here, here and here).

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Performance: C, C++, C#, Java, Perl and Python

Mathieu Fourment (et al.) just published a paper on some performance testing on 6 programming languages in BMC Bioinformatics: A comparison of common programming languages used in bioinformatics (doi:10.1186/1471-2105-9-82). The below figure is from the paper, for a sequence alignment exercise (copyright with paper authors, OpenAccess license of journal):

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Defining Development Goals: LaunchPad complements SourceForge

Today, Miguel (who made the 10000th CDK commit) and I gave LaunchPad a go, because if offers a nice GUI for planning and monitoring source code development. We have set up a CDK team and a CDK project. LaunchPad has overlap with SourceForge functionality, but they idea is not to duplicate functionality. Moreover, we do not translate the CDK either, so that LaunchPad functionality is not useful either. Not for the CDK at least; maybe for Jmol and Bioclipse?

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10000 CDK commits!

It has happened. Just a few minutes ago. The 10000th commit to the CDK source code repository. Miguel was the lucky(?) one. From our IRC channel #cdk on the irc.freenode.net network:

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Why chemistry-rich RSS feeds matter...

Peter wrote up an item on Nick’s CrystalEye’s RSS feed, and I have been enthusiastic about chemistry-enriched RSS feeds for some time. CMLRSS has the chemical data inline in the RSS; see DOI:10.1021/ci034244p, the use of CMLRSS in Chemical blogspace described here and here, and the CMLRSS support in Bioclipse.

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My PhD Thesis: in color and grayscale

Wednesday is my regular day off from my metabolomics work, and today I am finalizing the layout of my thesis, which I’ll defend on April 2. The print version will feature grayscale images with some of them in color too. However, the PDF version that will end up in our university repository should have color prints. So, while halfway creating suitable grayscale versions of the image, I realized I was not doing it properly. I was replacing the images; so, I lost the color version. Not good.

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Java Server Pages with CDK functionality

Setting up interactive web pages can be done in many way. Java Server Pages are just one of them. They are quite similar to PHP pages or Ruby, and combine plain HTML (and likely any other output) code with fragments of code; Java source code in this case.

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