• Oct 4, 2006

    Bioinformatics: Open Source or Open Access??

    I have heard that bioinformatics is ahead of chemoinformatics. However, I discoverd that this is not necessarily the case, while preparing for a homology modeling course I gave this week at the CUBIC. Open Access is really no issue there, with open access journals and many open access databases. But it is different when it comes down to open source software.

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  • Sep 28, 2006

    CompLife'06 - Day 1

    CompLife’06 started today in Cambridge, UK. About 80 people are attending the meeting, and topics range from systems biology to QSAR. This evening there was a free software session mostly focussing on opensource software. Twelve projects were presented, among which the CDK (by me) and Bioclipse (by Ola), in five minute presentations, and a two hour demo period during a reception (free speech and free beer :). We had our brand new fliers with us, as well as a large poster for some additional branding.

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  • Sep 24, 2006

    CDK Bug Squash Party - Day 5

    Day 5 was formally the last day (see also the summaries of day 1 , day 2 and day 3/4 ) of the Chemistry Development Kit Bug Squash Party (BSP). Miguel uploaded the last bits of his CDK PDBPolymer to CML to CDK PDBPolymer roundtripping functionality (closing a bug and a feature request in one go). Have not tested this first hand yet, but looking forward to playing with this bit of code. Kai continued to work on the more difficult bits of the code refactoring, resulting in fewer though more comprehensive commits. Stefan fixed another bug in JChemPaint; the rendering of implicit hydrogens.

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  • Sep 22, 2006

    CDK Bug Squash Party - Day 3 and 4

    Because I was struggling hard with default values for cdk.interfaces fields, I did not have time to write up the Bug Squash Party report for day 3 (see also day 1 and day 2 ). But here it is.

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  • Sep 20, 2006

    CDK Bug Squash Party - Day 2

    Like yesterday I will give short overview of things done at the Chemistry Development Kit Bug Squash Party (BSP). I think Stefan was the only to fix and close a bug report yesterday. Rajarshi added the MDE descriptor (yes, during a BSP new code might be commited too ;)

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  • Sep 18, 2006

    CDK Bug Squash Party - Day 1

    I plan to do a daily coverage of the Chemistry Development Kit Bug Squash Party (BSP). While Stefan was working hard to get the wiki machine back online after a hard-disc crash, Rajarshi, Miguel and me have been working hard. Miguel started to work on missing JUnit tests for bugs reported on SourceForge and Rajarshi fixed PMD, JavaDoc and other problems. I wrote 19 new JUnit tests and fixed two bugs, but with 44 bugs still open at SourceForge, there is quite some work to do. Luckily, several others will join in later this week.

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  • Sep 15, 2006

    Chemo::Blogs #1

    There are a number of links I wanted to blog about, but never really had time for yet. Here’s a short review of a them. Bio::Blogs is a series of summary/review articles of bio related blogs, and definately worth putting in your aggregator. Maybe someone is interested in setting up a Chemo::Blogs for chemistry blogs?

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