In my previous post I had mentioned that key/value or non-relational data stores could be useful in certain cheminformatics applications. I had started playing around with MongoDB and following Rich’s example, I thought I’d put it through its paces...

Over the past year or so I’ve been seeing a variety of non-relational data stores coming up. They also go by terms such as document databases or key/value stores (or even NoSQL databases). These systems are alternatives to traditional RDBMS’s in...

I came across WPTouch, a Wordpress plugin/theme that optimizes a blogs appearance for fast loading on mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android and so on. It’s really trivial to install (just like any other plugin) and once done, browsing this site on...

I met with Jean-Claude Bradley yesterday and we had a pretty useful hack session, allowing him to easily incorporate chemical and cheminformatics functionality into a GoogleDocs spreadsheet.A common task that Jean-Claude wanted to automate was the calculation...

A few days ago I was pointed to a new cheminformatics toolkit called Indigo, written in C++ with source code available under the GPLv3 license. Rich has previously commented on this. While it’s an initial release, it has a number of interesting components...

In the last few posts I’ve described how I’ve gotten up to speed on developing Map/Reduce applications using the Hadoop framework. The nice thing is that I can set it all up and test it out on my laptop and then easily migrate the application to...

The choice of a database can have far-reaching consequences on an application's design and capabilities. I've recently become interested in CouchDB and other so-called NoSQL databases as an alternative to traditional approaches.This article, the first in a...

We recently submitted a second paper on Bioclipse, and have worked hard in the past two weeks on addressing the reviewers' questions (and we love these feature requests! See also these two blogs). One reviewer seemed very interested in seeing docking available...

We recently submitted a second paper on Bioclipse, and have worked hard in the past two weeks on addressing the reviewers' questions (and we love these feature requests! See also these two blogs). One reviewer seemed very interested in seeing docking available...