Pedro reminded me of the last call for Open Laboratory 2007, which prints the best blog items of 2007 in book form. The list of chemistry contributions is not so large yet, so go ahead and nominate some of cool chemical blog items of the last year.
That’s why blogging works! I reported last Friday on using my Wii for reading Scintilla and Postgenomic.com.
On my desktop, the Scintilla and Postgenomic.com websites do not work. It is not a browser problem, but has something to do with TCP/IP packages not reaching its destination: the browser. Euan told me they are aware of the problem, but apparently have not found a solution yet.
Right at this moment I am listening to Andrew Hopkins from Dundee on chemical opportunities in system biology, at the Cytoscape conference in Amsterdam . Anyone who wants to meet up over lunch or coffee break?
I have started using branches for non-trivial patches, like removing the HückelAromaticityDetector, in favor of the new CDKHückelAromaticityDetector . I am doing this in my personal remove-non-cdkatomtype-code branch, where I can quietly work on the patch until I am happy about it. I make sure to keep it synchronized with trunk with regular svn merge commands.
I have been working on a new atom type perception engine for the CDK, after having decided that the existing atom type lists where not sufficient for the algorithms we have in the CDK.
Ola has been doing a good job of integrating BioMoby support into Bioclipse. Earlier he completed a GUI for running BioMOBY services, and added more recently a JavaScript wrapper too, using the Rhino plugin developed by Johannes.
While Subversion is a signification improvement over CVS, they both require a central server. That is, they do not allow me to commit changes when I am not connected to that server. This is annoying when being on a long train ride, or somewhere else without internet connectivity. I can pile up all my changes, but that would yield one big ugly patch.
I just ran into BioSpider. Unlike ChemSpider, BioSpider crawls the internet (well, this list of sources really) to find information, and depending on what it finds it continues the search.
In this series I will introduce the technologies behind my FOAF network.