• Oct 21, 2005

    Viagra saves the environment

    This week there was an interesting article in the Dutch Intermediar about viagra. They cite an article in Environmental Conversation and state that it saves the environment as it greatly reduced the market for animal parts from the traditional chinese medicine that address the same problem as viagra does.

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  • Oct 20, 2005

    CDK News 2.3 and InChI's

    CDK News 2.3 is scheduled for this month, and origanally planned to be distributed on the CDK5AW event. So, it’s a bit late. But the editorial process is converging… I realized that I forgot to mention the requirement for InChI’s whenever molecules are given. So, I’m now in the process of going through the issue and add the missing identifiers…

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  • Oct 19, 2005

    Jmol's FAH team in Top 800

    The Jmol FAH team has just entered the Top 800 of most active Folding@Home teams. And they started monitoring contributions on a user level. Thus, I can now see how active I am within the team. And so can you! Join the team, and let’s get into the Top 500!

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  • Oct 19, 2005

    InChI meta data with kfile_chemical

    I’ve just uploaded kfile_chemical 0.9 . It has new translations for ES and DA, and plugins for InChI files. It will extract the InChI string as meta data (and will thus be used by the KDE desktop search Kat , and the InChI version number.

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  • Oct 18, 2005

    CDK-Taverna fully recognized

    After asking about it, Tom explained me how Taverna can pick up the apiconsumer.xml file from jars: just copy it into the root directory of the jar package. Easy as that.

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  • Oct 17, 2005

    CIA statistics for Blue Obelisk

    I have just enabled CIA statistics for the Blue Obelisk SVN : /stats/project/cdk/blueobelisk .

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  • Oct 15, 2005

    Single PDFs for CDK News articles

    This week was the CDK5AW event, a workshop for users and developers of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK). After talking with other developers we agreed on creating PDF and HTML versions of single articles that appeared in the CDK News newsletter. Well, I haven’t figured out how to create nice HTML (the latex2html does not give nice results, anyone ideas?), but for the PDF version I now have a pipeline.

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