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NMRShiftDB enters rdf.openmolecules.net #2: SPARQL end point with Virtuoso
About 6 months ago I reported about my efforts to RDF-ize the data from the NMRShiftDB. Since then, time was consumed by many other things, but now that Bioclipse can query SPARQL end points, that I want to contribute the triple set (it is GNU FDL-licensed) to Bio2RDF, that a student started working in my group (now larger than just me :) on reasoning on life sciences data, and that I recently contributed my 1000th NMR spectrum to the database, I thought it was time to finally reinstall Virtuoso.
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Open Knowledge: Reproducibility in Cheminformatics with ODOSOS
Below are the slides of my presentation of last Monday (see my earlier blogs):
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Google Wave robot for CDK functionality
I was really happy to hear early last week that I was invited to take part in the Google Wave beta, and received my account details this Monday, while at attending (and speaking at) the GDCh Wissenschaftsforum Chemie 2009. Yesterday was a travel day, and while working on course material for the Pharmaceutical Bioinformatics course that uses Bioclipse, I set up an Eclipse environment for development of a wave robot. Documentation was very clear, and deployment on Appspot one click on the appropriate button. Great work from the people from Google! It was all so easy, I could not resist pushing things a bit further, and looked carefully at other robots, like ChemSpidey by Cameron and Igor by Euan, to see how text replacement is done, and wrote my first functional robot, CDKitty (chemdevelkit@appspot.com):
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Reminder: my talk in Frankfurt on Monday; Want to meet up?
Quick and short reminder about my Open Knowledge: Reproducibility in Cheminformatics with Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards talk on Monday. The session is great anyway, with other talks from Cameron, John and someone from Berlin on a Open Access HTS system (which reminds me to talk about the Open Access and that the term is tainted).
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PLoS ONE and Chemical blogspace: About no Impact yet
Journals in chemistry are pretty well fixed. JACS, Angewandte Chemie are clear leaders. Nature and Science if you have something that will attract many scientists. For the rest many smaller journals exist more dedicated at particular research areas.
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The Social Web does not wait for Bioclipse... here comes Google Wave
Google Wave is going to change the web. It’s the end of Google Docs, and likely many other services. It’s going to be Open Source and being a Wave Provider will not be restricted to Google. This will be enough to make this a success. If you haven’t watched the full video demo yet, please have a look yourself:
