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Oscar text mining in Taverna
One of the goals of my project in Cambridge is to make Oscar available as Taverna plugin (source code, Hudson build). I have progressed somewhat, but still struggling with getting the update site working. The plugin actually installs into Taverna 2.2.0, but the activities do not show up. While this is work in progress, and the other project goal is refactoring, a current demo workflow looks like:
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Royce Murray and Caveat Emptor
Derek’s blog pointed me to an editorial by Royce Murray Science Blogs and Caveat Emptor (doi:10.1021/ac102628p). He is warning us, science scholars, for blogs. He is accusing bloggers for not being scholarly, not checking facts etc.
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Working on Oscar for three months
As Peter announced in his blog, and I tweeted earlier, I have started as postdoctoral research associate in Peter’s group at the University of Cambridge, to work the next three months on Oscar, a chemical text mining tool. My tasks will focus on programmatical plumbing instead of method development, and I am aiming at integration with CDK-Taverna (see doi:10.1186/1471-2105-11-159, and which is currently being ported to Taverna 2.2 by Andreas). Sam and Lezan having been working on the refactoring as well, and will help me out with the gory details of the current code.
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CDK Book in progress
Very much overdue, but still in progress, is my book on CDK programming. I am in love with the writing environment, a mix of make, Groovy and LaTeX, where the code snippets are written in Groovy and embedded into LaTeX (see CDK - The Documentation). The Groovy script is actually run by the build system, allowing me to embed the output too.
