The IUPAC/NIST team made a beta release of the next InChI software release:

Peter has been doing an excellent job in advocating ODOSOS , and one of his posts even hit Slashdot.

Niels and I held a JChemPaint hack-a-thon today (the IRC log). We had a quite ambitious agenda:

If you, like me, already upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy, and use nxclient for remote login (highly recommended, though proprietary code), you might run into the problem that the login no longer works, returning the message “Cannot find KDE environment.”. Ubuntu’s Lauchpad (generally an excellent service) was rather uncooperative and disregarded a bug report about the problem, I found the solution with grep -ri kde /usr/NX:

I just installed XCMS 1.9.2 on my Ubuntu system. XCMS is a GPL-ed R package for metabolomics data analysis.

Rich blogged about Firefly embedding MDL molfiles in PNG images , which I found really cool. Rich and Noel later showed how that metadata can be retrieved again , possibly with Python.

Clustering and classification of crystal structures is hot.

An anonymous reader reported that the American Medical Association published the structure of dapagliflozin. Here are the details.

Mike released Operator 0.8, which picks up RDF (RDFa en eRDF) from HTML pages, and adds actions to it. I blogged earlier about the beta and wrote a script for it for chemical RDFa . At this moment, Chemical blogspace and RDF for Molecular Space (see this blog ) are using chemical RDFa to semantically markup molecular information.

Via SciFoo Planet (from Partial immortalization ) I learned about TouchGraph Google (Peter brought it into Chemical blogspace). It’s cool, though not open source.

Peter wondered if data should be stored centralized or decentralized, when Deepak blogged about Freebase and Metaweb. Now, I haven’t really looked into these two projects, but the question of centralized versus decentralized is interesting. It’s MySQL versus the world wide web; it’s the PubChem compound ID versus the InChI; it’s http://cb.openmolecules.net/rdf/?InChI=1/CH4/h1H4 versus info:inchi/InChI=1/CH4/h1H4 (see RDF-ing molecular space ).