The Cb software is still holding… I jettinsoned the old post cache, which speeded up the processing of blogs considerably, but the system just doesn’t scale right. Yet, Euan has done a great job, and the Cb site has now been online for some three years!
The announcement of the Panton Principles is the big news today, though Peter already spoke about them in May last year (see coverage on FriendFeed and Twitter). The four principles list in their short versions:
Please find below the presentation I gave today at SWAT4LS :
Well, you might spot a pattern here; yes, another chemical SPARQL end point (actually, it shares the end point with the Solubility data). This time around Rich’s ChemPedia.
With pleasure I read Analogue or Digital? - Both, Please. Funnily, I just created MP3 (or, preferably Ogg Vorbis, superior but hardly any support by commercial companies, who rather seem to pay license fees) directly from the CD.
RDF and SPARQL are two really useful Open Standards. Bioclipse-RDF is a plugin for Bioclipse that provide RDF functionality, among which using remote SPARQL end points.
Last week, there was a very interesting thread on the DBPedia mailing list, on using Java for doing remote SPARQL queries. This was one of the features still missing in bioclipse.rdf. Richard Cyganiak replied pointing the code in Jena which conveniently does this and which bioclipse.rdf is already using anyway.
Chemistry has a bit of background in ontologies, and ChemAxiom is certainly not the first (though I think it is rather promising…). Three years ago I gave a presentation at the CUBIC (now existing as LinkedIn Alumni Group), which is not so extensive, but does have a few interesting citations on the use of ontologies in chemistry on slide 16:
The Uppsala and EBI CDK-teams have been working hard on finishing the rewrite of JChemPaint I started with Niels earlier. While the EBI-team focused on the applet (and Swing application), the Uppsala team, obviously, focused on the SWT side, for integration into Bioclipse.
My thesis was released slightly over a year ago in print form. The electronic form has not yet, which has social and legal barriers. Like many before me, I made the mistake to publish in journals that require me to reassign copyright.