A good functional molecular editor is of much important to the chemical web. There are a few small download sized editors around. JChemPaint has been available as applet for some time now, but the download size has been large. The situation has improved considerable over the past months, and the download size upon which the applet now shows up in your webbrowser is down to 538kB. A live demo is available from www.chemistry-development-kit.org.

Less then three months before the end of my contract of my PhD project. And not nearly done yet. Weekends are now spend on wrapping up bits of experimental research into something like a coherent article. And even lot’s of calculations to do to answer the open questions. FreeMind is helping me organize thoughts.

This week there was an interesting article in the Dutch Intermediar about viagra. They cite an article in Environmental Conversation and state that it saves the environment as it greatly reduced the market for animal parts from the traditional chinese medicine that address the same problem as viagra does.

CDK News 2.3 is scheduled for this month, and origanally planned to be distributed on the CDK5AW event. So, it’s a bit late. But the editorial process is converging… I realized that I forgot to mention the requirement for InChI’s whenever molecules are given.

I’ve just uploaded kfile_chemical 0.9 . It has new translations for ES and DA, and plugins for InChI files. It will extract the InChI string as meta data (and will thus be used by the KDE desktop search Kat , and the InChI version number.

The Jmol FAH team has just entered the Top 800 of most active Folding@Home teams. And they started monitoring contributions on a user level. Thus, I can now see how active I am within the team. And so can you! Join the team, and let’s get into the Top 500!

After asking about it, Tom explained me how Taverna can pick up the apiconsumer.xml file from jars: just copy it into the root directory of the jar package. Easy as that.

I have just enabled CIA statistics for the Blue Obelisk SVN : /stats/project/cdk/blueobelisk .

This new blog will deal with chemblaics in the broader sense, and will not be restricted to research in this field in which I am involved personally.

This week was the CDK5AW event, a workshop for users and developers of the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK). After talking with other developers we agreed on creating PDF and HTML versions of single articles that appeared in the CDK News newsletter. Well, I haven’t figured out how to create nice HTML (the latex2html does not give nice results, anyone ideas?), but for the PDF version I now have a pipeline.