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JJ: Day 98, Service with a 'Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification'

linked to by 3 posted to The Sceptical Chymist on Thu 8th May 08

Hi everyone,This week the Nature Chemistry team have been thinking about how we display our wonderful papers (when we finally open the doors and eventually publish a paper, anyway). Wed really like to see what everyone else thinks about some of the things we...

John Wilbanks replies to the ChemSpider/OpenData discussion

linked to by 1 posted to Chem-bla-ics on Sat 10th May 08

Not long after I posted my view on things, John posted his reply on the ChemSpider/OpenData discussion. His comment was merely to illustrate an internal advice to some organization, which got accidentally leaked. Anyway, a must read, with two good links to...

Does ChemSpider really violate Open Data with CC SA?

linked to by 1 posted to Chem-bla-ics on Sat 10th May 08

ChemSpider is afraid they are doing something bad because they release their data as CC-BY-SA. Because, John Wilbanks says in Peter's blog:I would add to it that I'd like to see a meaningful discussion of therisks of Share Alike and Attribution on data integration....

Re: What should a Nature Chemistry paper look like?

linked to by 1 posted to Chem-bla-ics on Thu 8th May 08

Neil wondered "what a Nature Chemistry paper should look like", and asked the following questions. Below are my answers.1. HTML vs PDF: does anyone read the HTML articles? Do you read the PDF on-screen or print it out?I typically read the HTML to scan if a...

Cheminformatics toolkit face-off - Depiction

linked to by 1 posted to Noel O'Blog on Thu 8th May 08

Now for some pretty pictures as well as some not so pretty. Yes, it's the turn of the structure diagram generators (SDGs) to strut their stuff and throw some shapes. How do they perform for 100 random compounds from PubChem?Here are my results for depiction...

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Popular books & papers this week

Evidence for a long-lived superheavy nucleus with atomic mass number A=292 and atomic number Z=~122 in natural Th

linked to by 1 published by arXiv on Thu 24th Apr 08

nuclear chemistry

Evolvability and hierarchy in rewired bacterial gene networks.

linked to by 1 published by Nature on Thu 17th Apr 08

synthetic research highlights evolution tomita, masaru biological_approaches

Total Synthesis of (+)-Fawcettidine.

linked to by 1 published by Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. on Tue 22nd Apr 08

still in the rbf

Chemical Composition of Vintage Preban Absinthe with Special Reference to Thujone, Fenchone, Pinocamphone, Methanol, Copper, and Antimony Concentrations.