This news comes by way of John Parkhill, my new colleague here at Notre Dame.William G. Hoover (of the Nos-Hoover Thermostat) and Carol G. Hoover issued a $500 challenge on arXiv to generate a time-reversible random number generator. This itself would be quite...

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Sat 18th May 13Mit dem Wechsel des GDCh CIC-Fachgruppenvorstands hat auch fr die langjhrige, internationale German Conference on Chemoinformatics eine neue ra begonnen. Neben dem Wechsel des Veranstaltungsort nach Fulda geht auch eine Neugestaltung des wissenschaftlichen...

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Thu 16th May 13I never had thought I would ever blog about Angelina Jolie's breasts, but they were the news this week that turns out to help me answer a student question for our bioinformatics course. The question was about how to visualize SNPs in 3D protein structures....

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Thu 16th May 13The Protein Kinase Inhibitor Set (PKIS) made available by GSK was recently mentioned on In the Pipeline. In collaboration with GSK, we are making the data being generated on these compounds available via the ChEMBL database. We are also...

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Thu 16th May 13Yesterday’s post on the reversible random number generators received some interesting reactions from my colleagues. They were uniformly impressed with the solution to what everyone thought was a hard problem, but surprisingly, most of the scientists I...