Updated Chemical Blogspace Layout and Software

Last night I upgraded the software behind Chemical blogspace , to the version online on Google Code, though I needed the help from Eaun to get paper titles correctly picked up for ACS journals. The number of working blogs is a bit down and now at 68 , with an average number of 30 active blogs posting more than 100 blog items each day (see Zeitgeist ). The new design looks like quite nice compared to the old one:

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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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Counting constitutional isomers from the molecular formula

Update: check these two papers.

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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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