Almost a year ago I started a position with Peter Murray-Rust to work on Oscar for three months (see this overview of results; a paper by the full Oscar team (Sam, David, Dan, Lezan) is pending, and I’m really happy to have been able to contribute bits to the project). Since then, I have had little time :( That’s how it goes, with post-hopping, unfortunately. One thing I did do after that, was write a Bioclipse plugin.

About two weeks ago, the ChemConnector blog reported an InChIKey collosion detected by Prof. Goodman . Unlike the previous collision, this one was based solely on the graph and not on stereochemistry. The two molecules both have the InChIKey OCPAUTFLLNMYSX-UHFFFAOYSA-N: The compounds are really different, the molecular formulas are C ₅₀ H ₁₀₂ O and C ₅₇ H ₁₁₄ O respectively.

Web of Science is my de facto standard for citation statistics (I need these for VR grant applications), and defines the lower limit of citations (it is pretty clean, but I do have to ping them now and then to fix something). The public front-end of it is Researcher ID. There is an Microsoft initiative, which looks clean but doesn’t work on Linux for the nicer things, but the coverage of journals is pretty bad in my field, giving a biased

Update: the fourth edition is out.

I cannot find the bug report just now, but the CDK has an open problem with change even notification, where the nonotify classes still caused change event to be sent around. This was because the nonotify classes extended in a wrong way the data classes. So, I worked today on copying the data class implementations into a new implementation, not extending the data classes, while removing the listener code: the silent module.

Kasabi is a new, RDF hosting service by Talis. It’s still in beta, and I have been testing their beta service with the RDF version I created of ChemPedia Substances (the now no longer existing cool web service from MetaMolecular to draw and name organic molecules). Kasabi makes the RDF data available via a few APIs, depending on the APIs selected by the uploader. I picked all five of them, just to see how things work.

Update 2021-02 : this post is still the second-most read post in my blog. Welcome! Some updates: Ammar Ammar in our BiGCaT group has set up a new SPARQL endpoint. Please use and tweet. blog, or otherwise let others now how you use the ChEMBL RDF. Since this post I have blogged a lot more about ChEMBL. Update : this work is now written down in this paper.

Update: the fourth edition is out.

Some time ago, the brilliant GitHub people gave me the following tip. Rajarshi is lazy, and might find it interesting. By appending .patch to the commit URL, a commit can easily be downloaded as patch. That way, developers can easily download it with wget or curl and apply it locally with git am, without having the fetch the full repository.

Oscar is a text miner. It mines in text for chemistry. Oscar4 is the next iteration of Oscar code that I worked on in the past three months, with Lezan, Sam, and David.

Mark’s new CCO/RDF hosting functionality (see also my post two days ago) requires RDF/XML format, so I updated my code to convert the Chempedia Substances data into RDF/XML instead of N3 (I have asked Rich to put a new download link online). This is the Groovy code I used: import groovy.xml.MarkupBuilder import groovy.util.IndentPrinter input = new File("substances.json") json = new JsonSlurper().parse(input); def writer = new StringWriter() def