ChemSpider has set up embeddable chemistry widget (per Cameron’s idea), much like YouTube. I just have to try that.

I gave this 10 minute presentation on MetWare this afternoon at the International Metabolomics Workshop :

Git is nice. Nicer to some than to other, that is true. GitReady just learned me how to calculate commit message in a few seconds: git shortlog -s -n. For the whole Bioclipse and CDK commit history. Seconds. Here they are.

On Monday I showed two screenshot showing our new XMPP-based web/cloud services in action inside Taverna.

SMILES (CCC) in, mass out.

Richard Kidd wrote in the ChemistryWorldBlog about Henry Rzepa to have published two papers in RSC journals where Jmol is part of the main paper, after having used Jmol in extra material in ACS journals before. The key here is that the Jmol is part of the official text… when you open the paper in a browser, you immediately get to see the Jmol live, 3D graphics! Well, so it is said in the blog.

As you might have read, Bioclipse has scripting support (see for example, Scripting JChemPaint ), and that we have been collection them on Gist and indexing them on Delicious with the tags bioclipse and gist. This provides a nice overview of what you can do with the current SVN version of Bioclipse2. And, hopefully, when released, allow users to quickly learn about Bioclipse features, allow people to share scripts etc.

With the general framework set up for editing and validation of CML documents , it was fairly easy to support the PubChem XML file format schema too.

One advantage of using XML is that one can rely on good support in libraries for functionality. When parsing XML, one does not have to take care of the syntax, and focus on the data and its semantics. This comes at the expense of verbosity, though, but having the ability to express semantics explicitly is a huge benefit for flexibility.

11 years ago, a day more or less, I bought an the special issue of CHIP which shipped Debian 1.3.1. I think I’ve tried SuSe and RedHat earlier that year, but this Debian release made me switch away from proprietary products 98% (taxes I still had to do with Windows98). Right now, I am mostly running Ubuntu, which leans heavily on the work of the Debian project.

The reason why I have not blogged in more than two weeks, was that I was hoping to blog about the CDK 1.2.0 release. This was originally aimed at September, slipped into October, November and then December. There were only three show stoppers (see this wiki page), one of which the IChemObject interfaces were not properly tested.