Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Sieh dir dieses Video auf www.youtube.com an oder aktiviere JavaScript, falls es in deinem Browser deaktiviert sein sollte. Following on from the last post in which the Semantic Web was described in plain english, here’s this video, which does the same thing for RDF.

Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Sieh dir dieses Video auf www.youtube.com an oder aktiviere JavaScript, falls es in deinem Browser deaktiviert sein sollte. Egon Willighagen has been posting an interesting series of articles on the use of RDF in chemistry, the latest being this one.

Chemistry and the Web should be a natural fit for each other, but for a variety of reasons, they haven’t been. Part of the reason is cultural; part is technical. The good news is that the situation is starting to change for the better on both fronts. For the last two years, Depth-First has discussed, sometimes in great detail, many of the technical issues facing chemistry as it slowly begins to embrace the Web.

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When people think of cheminformatics, one of the first things that comes to mind is the pharmaceutical industry. While pharma may represent a large share of the cheminformatics pie today, it’s but one segment. There are many groups of potential users of cheminformatics systems who make do with trying to fit square pegs into round holes - or forgo the attempt altogether - because few in the industry have paid attention to them.

MX is a fast, lightweight cheminformatics toolkit that can be used in many programming environments. Previous articles have shown how easy it is to use MX in Ruby and Python, but that’s just the beginning. Because MX is written in Java and is both small and self-contained, it can also be compiled into pure JavaScript thanks to the Google Web Toolkit.

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Earlier this year, Golovin and Henrick published a novel technique for performing substructure search on large databases using SQL. What makes this approach unique is that it takes advantage of the built-in breadth-first search capabilities of most database engines to do structure matching. At least three public-facing sites now use the system, including this one at EMBL-EBI.

During my time as a synthetic organic chemist and later, a medicinal chemist, there were many times when I wondered why certain chemical information tools were built, why they were built the way they were - especially when they hindered my ability to use them, and why others seemed to go unbuilt despite obvious need for them.

Could it be that both Open Access and Electronic Laboratory Notebooks are examples of telephone-like capabilities being used to make a better telegraph? Web-Centric Science offers a set of features orthoginal to those of paper-centric science. Creating the new system in the image of the old one misses the point, and the opportunity, entirely.

From The Realm of Organic Synthesis comes a common feeling of frustration with the way scientific information is distributed, and an increasingly common proposal for a solution: Today we’re witnessing a major re-evaluation of the scientific publication system. At issue is the fundamental inefficiency with the way things work - in terms of time, effort, and especially money.