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Chemistry in HTML: Greasemonkey again
Here’s a quick update on my blog about SMILES, CAS and InChI in blogs: Greasemonkey last sunday. The original download was messed up :( You can download a new version at userscripts.org.
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SMILES, CAS and InChI in blogs: Greasemonkey
As follow up on my Including SMILES, CML and InChI in blogs blog last week, I had a go at Greasemonkey. Some time ago already, Flags and Lollipops and Nodalpoint showed with two cool mashups (one Connotea/Postgenomic and one Pubmed/Postgenomic) that userscripts are rather useful in science too. I can very much recommend the PubMed/Postgenomic mashup, as PubMed has several organic chemistry journals indexed too!
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Molecular Chemometrics
I just found out that a review article that I wrote earlier this year got printed: Molecular Chemometrics (DOI:10.1080/10408340600969601), with my personal view on the interplay between chemoinformatics and chemometrics. The review discusses interesting developments in the last five years, and was fun writing (reading too, I think :). It has four major topics:
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Including SMILES, CML and InChI in blogs
The blogs ChemBark and KinasePro have been discussing the use of SMILES, CML and InChI in Chemical Blogspace (with 70 chemistry blogs now!). Chemists seem to prefer SMILES over InChI, while there is interest in moving towards CML too. Peter commented.
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H-index in chemoinformatics
Peter blogged about the h-index, which is a measure for ones scientific impact. He used Google Scholar, but I do not feel that that database is clean enough. I believe a better source would be the ISI Web-of-Science.
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The power of big numbers
Contributions to open data do not have to be large, as long as many people are doing it. The Wikipedia is a good example, and PubChem accepts contributions of small databases too (I think). The result can still be large and rather useful, even scientifically.