I decided to concentrate my blogs and have categories for specialist blogs like this one. You can continue about my chemical RCP adventure here.

Dear Eclipse Community, I know there is a tremendous amount of information online, and StackOverflow full of Eclipse-RCP questions already. But the downside of that is that there is a lot of noise. Would it be an idea to set up a StackExchange dedicated to development of Eclipse RCP-based applications? If you like the idea, please contribute to the Definition process.

Triggered by posts in the past three days, I though about writing up a short tutorial on how to perform code review for existing code on GitHub. Therefore, this applied to CDK and Bioclipse source code, many but will work for any project hosted in GitHub. Even if it is not, you could consider putting up a copy there yourself.

I just added an entry to the Google Summer of Code 2010 Ideas wiki page: Resource Description Framework (RDF) is ~10 year old W3C standard. Uptake is taking off now, and it would be nice to see a Eclipse project like the Web Tools Package to provide basic RDF related functionality.

When Bioclipse reads filed its workspace, it used IFile.getContentDescription() in version 2.0 and 2.2. However, I now note that unit tests that use this method fail where they used to work in earlier versions.

As you know from my blog, one of the things I am working on is to push RDF functionality in Bioclipse, as I believe it to be the missing link between molecular chemometrics and literature, databases, and other non-numerical information sources.

Jonathan worked this week on new features for the Bioclipse RDF editor (see these two earlier items). This version still does not edit, but only display using Zest. Jonathan created for me an extension point so that anyone can make the editor aware of domain objects, by simply registering the extension implementation along with the rdf:Class URI of the rdf:type of an object.

Quite a while a go, I blogged about Zest in Bioclipse showing a bit of ONS Solubility data. I could not follow up on that until now, as I had yet to do a lot of RDF work in Bioclipse, so the screenshot back then was kind of a mockup.

Ola is releasing Bioclipse 2.2.0 today, and asked me to show case the semantic web functionality in Bioclipse. I realized that I do not have a nice page showing the semantic web overview.

Bioclipse 2.0 introduced a new, powerful molecular table support, and we have been eager to test that on large SD files. A recent ChEBI SD file failed to open, and eyes were immediately at the CDK, which is the cheminformatics library used in Bioclipse. After careful investigations, it turned out that the ChEBI file contained a few entries which were not MDL molfiles, but queries for the ISISBase system.

Bioclipse uses a custom target-platform... but since I am using the Eclipse 3.5 from Ubuntu now, extra features I download (GEF, BIRT, EMF, ...) end up in $HOME... so, I need to add a folder to the target-platform.target file... but I cannot find the variable for $HOME/.eclipse/org.eclipse.platform_3_foo_bar/plugins, such the files has things like @{eclipse_home}/plugins too... Right now I have the below, but that clearly is not the solution: