Via Carbon-Based Curiosities’s blogroll I found a number of new blogs (on top of the list I posted yesterday), and just added them to Chemical blogspace.

bbgm was rethinking software access.

Via Rich’ blog, I was informed about the work by goesLightly on CampDepict, a Ruby-based application which uses the CDK for SMILES parsing and 2D diagram generation. With cdk-20060714.jar it’s using pretty ancient code, and I have not seen a screenshot.

Some publishers hesitate a bit, but others go full speed ahead into the electronic publishing era.

Two companies recently showed two things:

While I do not agree in details on the statement made by Klaus, I agree with his intentions, and happy to propagate the mantra, like others did before me:

Today starts the MetWare developers meeting, hosted by Steffen Neumann, at the Leibniz-Institut für Pflanzenbiochemie. Steffen’s group and the Applied Bioinformatics group where I now work, are co-developing an opensource platform for metabolomics data management.

As announced earlier, Miguel, Velitchka, Christoph and I held a small CDK/Metabolomics/Chemometrics unconference. We started late, and did not have an evening program, resulting in not overly much results. However, we did do molecular chemometrics.

In reply to Peter’s news that the NIH’s PubMed Central (PMC) does not allow machine retrieval of content, I was wondering about this section in the CC license of much of the PMC content, such as our paper on userscripts (section 4a of the CC-BY 2.0):

I normally do not do these kinds of blog items, but, in reply to Christoph’s blog, here’s an overview of the ceremony (see also T-26 and T+18):

I am doctor now; I shall now be addressed as weledelzeergeleerde Egon; translating to something like quite-noble-very-knowledgeable, hahahaha. I’ll put up a few photo’s of the ceremony, which is actually quite formal at the Radboud University, later.