Please find below the presentation I gave today at SWAT4LS :

Well, you might spot a pattern here; yes, another chemical SPARQL end point (actually, it shares the end point with the Solubility data). This time around Rich’s ChemPedia.

With pleasure I read Analogue or Digital? - Both, Please. Funnily, I just created MP3 (or, preferably Ogg Vorbis, superior but hardly any support by commercial companies, who rather seem to pay license fees) directly from the CD.

RDF and SPARQL are two really useful Open Standards. Bioclipse-RDF is a plugin for Bioclipse that provide RDF functionality, among which using remote SPARQL end points.

Last week, there was a very interesting thread on the DBPedia mailing list, on using Java for doing remote SPARQL queries. This was one of the features still missing in bioclipse.rdf. Richard Cyganiak replied pointing the code in Jena which conveniently does this and which bioclipse.rdf is already using anyway.

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.

Dear lazyweb!

My thesis was released slightly over a year ago in print form. The electronic form has not yet, which has social and legal barriers. Like many before me, I made the mistake to publish in journals that require me to reassign copyright.

FriendFeed is the missing link between social [bookmarking|news|…] and IRC (#cdk on irc.freenode.net); I quite like it. Anyway, as of today, they have a new layout, and that I do not like. No more icons for feed types, and big avatar photo’s. Really, I know what my fellow blogger look like (even met many of them in London last year). The rest of the layout is a bit too colourful for my taste.

In preparation of the CDK workshop next week, here is a small Bioclipse2 script to calculate the XLogP value for a given SMILES, using the a CDK-based XMPP service:

In preparation for the CDK workshop later this month, I am writing up my material for my kick-off presentation of the workshop. So, I better make it good. Using LaTeX at least overcomes my laziness which always made Word documents look stupid.