The Columbus Dispatch reported yesterday that an Ohio jury had decided against the ACS for $27 million in a dispute with the founders of Leadscope, Inc. The case was a countersuit by Leadscope, who alleged that Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) had damaged their company in pursuing an earlier lawsuit.
For far too long Ruby has lacked a development environment that supported important features developers in other languages now take for granted: code completion; refactoring; platform-independence; and speed. Although NetBeans may not spring to mind when thinking of Rails IDEs, it should be at the top of the list for anyone interested in the subject.
Given a molecular representation without 2D coordinates, how would you display a human-readable view? This problem can arise in many situations, one of the most common of which is the parsing of line notations such as IUPAC nomenclature, SMILES, or InChI. And then there are the cases when you have 2D coordinates, but they’re not very aesthetically pleasing.
The NIH heard public comments yesterday on its plans for implementing PL 110-161 Section 218, a new law that grants the agency broad powers to intervene in the scientific publication system. Scientific publishers were out in force. According to The Scientist, Jack Ochs of the American Chemical Society (ACS) was first in line to offer comments: A lot is riding on the outcome.
How can the above atropisomers be represented without using explicit 3D coordinates?
Startup School is set to take place again this year on April 19 th at Stanford University. Having gone last year, I can say it was well worth it. The one day event was a great chance to meet people with all levels of experience in starting companies. The speakers were amazing.
A new law that introduces major changes in the way many U.S. scientific papers are published and redistributed is about to go into effect. Late last year, President Bush signed into law H.R. 2764 (now Public Law 110-161), part of which gives a broad new mandate to the NIH to intervene in the scientific publication system: A new NIH Public Access Website describes how the agency intends to implement the law.
Contrary to popular misconception, Java applets are a mature technology ideally suited for building highly interactive Web content. Although this hasn’t always been the case, a lot has changed since Sun’s introduction of Java over a decade ago.
Java applets are easy to deploy in a standards-compliant way across multiple browsers - you just need to know how. The previous article in this series gave some general pointers to better applet deployment, including the use of the <object> tag.
