I use Google Analytics to analyze the visitors of my blogs and of Planet Blue Obelisk too.

I just read on Planet Blue Obelisk Peter’s disturbing news (via Suber ) that Wiley thinks it can copyright a set of numbers (also known as data). That is a sad milestone in scientific publishing. It reminds me of the recent internet hype about a long number recently flooding the internet (and notably del.icio.us) related to watching DVDs you legally bought.

Getting back on microformats (see yesterday ), I added my hCard to the bottom of my blog:

Peter blogged some days ago about microformats and how they could be used in chemistry. Being late and a bit absent minded, I added a short comment that Chemical blogspace supports microformats for chemistry , and that chemistry is harvested from that, and actually semantically distributed again using CMLRSS.

After handing in a new draft of my PhD manuscript with my co-promotors last friday, and a week before we leave for Sweden, it is time to start finishing up the material for my one hour workshop on chemoinformatics in general and QSAR/QSPR in particular for the Bioclipse Workshop.

About a year ago Pedro wrote a Greasemonkey script to add comments from PostGenomic.com to table of contents of scientific journals. Noel extended it with support for Chemical blogspace (see also this earlier item). Now, the later website is maintained by me, and I extended the aggregator software with molecule support, for example to show hot molecules on the frontpage (at some point my patches will be backported into mainstream.

While adding the 116th blog (David Bradley’s Chemistry News) to Chemical blogspace (see also New Blogs #5, I noticed that David is using semantic markup for InChI’s (thanx!).

Yesterday and today I was in Cologne to meet with other ex-CUBIC researchers from Christoph’s research group on chemoinformatics (and with Alexandr). Not all former group members where there, but on the other hand we were complemented with Pascal:

In preparation for the Embrace Workshop for Bioclipse in May, I am working on the QSAR functionality of Bioclipse. A nice extension point got set up some time ago, called DescriptorProvider , and implemented by plugins to allow calculation of one or more descriptors for the selected molecules. Now, the functionality for the resulting matrix has been around for some time too.

Last night, I released CDK 1.0 as the previous release candidate did not show up new major problems. It is far from a perfect release (see these still TODO’s and Nightly, run by Rajarshi), but the core is pretty solid.

The Dutch Intermediair magazine of this week had a letter sent by a reader introducing Clusty, a web search engine that clusters the results.