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CompLife2007, Utrecht/NL. Day 1 and 2
CompLife 2007 was held 1.5 weeks ago in Utrecht, The Netherlands. The number of participants was much lower than last year in Cambridge. Ola and I gave a tutorial on Bioclipse, and Thorsten one on KNIME. Since a visit to Konstance to meet the KNIME developers, I had not been able to develop a KNIME plugin, but this was a nice opportunity to finally do so. I managed to do so, and wrote up a plugin that takes InChIKeys and then goes of the ChemSpider to download MDL molfiles:
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Taverna Workshop, Day 1 Update
The second part of the morning session featured a presentation by Sirisha Gollapudi which spoke about mining biological graphs, such as protein-protein interaction networks and metabolic pathways. Patterns detection for nodes with only one edge, and cycles etc, using Taverna. An example data she worked on is the Palsson human metabolism (doi:10.1073/pnas.0610772104); she mentioned that this metabolite data set contains cocaine :) Neil Chue Hong finished with an introduction on the OMII-UK which is co-host of this meeting.
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Taverna Workshop, Hinxton, UK
I arrived at the EBI last night for the Taverna workshop, during which the design of Taverna2 is presented and workflow examples are discussed. Several ‘colleagues’ from Wageningen and the SARA computing center in Amsterdam are present, along with many other interesting people. This afternoon is my presentation.
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How the blogosphere changes publishing
Peter is writing up a 1FTE grant proposal for someone to work on the question how automatic agents and, more interestingly, the blogosphere are changing, no improving, the dissemination of scientific literature. He wants our input. To make his work easy, I’ll tag this item
pmrgrantproposaland would ask everyone to do the same (Peter unfortunately did not suggest a tag himself). Here are pointers to blog items I wrote, related to the four themes Peter identifies. -
SMILES to become an Open Standard
Craig James wants to make SMILES an open standard, and this has been received with much enthusiasm. SMILES (Simplified molecular input line entry specification) is a de facto standard in chemoinformatics, but the specification is not overly clear, which Craig wants to address. The draft is CC-licensed and will be discussed on the new Blue Obelisk blueobelisk-smiles mailing list.
