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Michel Dumontier at Uppsala University
Michel visits our group this week and gave a very exciting talk yesterday on the role of ontologies in drug discover. This being ongoing research in our group too, the talk was well received by the audience (which was not too large, because after mid-summer, Uppsala has holiday). First the first time, I microblogged a talk on my twitter account (using the #dumontieratuppsala tag). I have not got a XSLT ready to convert the relevant items into a nice HTML snippet for embedding in this blog, but will try to do that later. Meanwhile, I also made a few bookmarks here and there, which are available from Delicious.
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The Dr Who's of Life Sciences
Peter recently wrote up a model of how several Blue Obelisk (please contribute to the page!) projects changed in history: The Doctor Who Model of Open Source. This was later picked up by Glyn and then by Slashdot (second time Peter got that fame; that’s one of the advantages of working at a well-known institute, instead of something like Uppsala University. Beside Bioclipse, GROMACS and the CDK, MySQL AB actually has a headquarters here.) Thanx to Chris who pointed me to the Slashdot coverage.
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Bioclipse-JChemPaint
The Uppsala and EBI CDK-teams have been working hard on finishing the rewrite of JChemPaint I started with Niels earlier. While the EBI-team focused on the applet (and Swing application), the Uppsala team, obviously, focused on the SWT side, for integration into Bioclipse. The new JChemPaint is reaching a useful state, and below is a quick update screenshot something Arvid has been working on:
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No, PDFs really do suck!
A typical blog by Peter MR made (again), The ICE-man: Scholary HTML not PDF, the point of why PDF is to data what a hamburger is to a cow, in reply to a blog by Peter SF, Scholarly HTML.
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Open Data: license, rights, aggregation, clean interfaces?
A recent post by Cameron on his visit last week with Nico, Peter and Jim, discussed Open Data licensing. This lead to an interesting discussion on these matters, and questions by me on why people care so much about only public domain data (or licensed with PDDL or CC0).
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ChemSpider and the RSC: where next?
Last Monday the CHMINF-L brought the news to me that ChemSpider was acquired by the RSC (not the press release). Twitter (my Twitter post) and FriendFeed (see this series).
