New Blogs #8

Sunday, October 21, 2007

It has been a bit quite with new blogs items during the summer, but 15 new blogs have been added since New Blogs #7. These are the new blogs that entered Chemical blogspace in the last month:

• Drugs and Poisons (entry in Cb)
• Liberal Arts Chemistry (entry in Cb)
• Brandon's Super-Dynamic Blog of Things, and Stuff (entry in Cb)
• ConcreteChemViz (entry in Cb)
• Computational Organic Chemistry (entry in Cb)
• Trapped in the USA (entry in Cb)
• Staudinger's Semantic Molecules (entry in Cb)
• ChemRadio (entry in Cb)
• Dutch summer of code - jchempaint (entry in Cb)
• ACS Fall National Meeting in Boston (entry in Cb)
• Agile2Robust (entry in Cb)
• Chenomx Blog (entry in Cb)
• National Chemistry Week | October 21-27 | 2007 (entry in Cb)
• OPEN CHEMISTRY WEB (entry in Cb)
• Sigma-Aldrich's ChemBlogs (entry in Cb)
• University of Ottawa NMR Facility Blog (entry in Cb)

Quite a few temporary, thematic blogs this time; that's a new evolution of blogspace.

InChIKey now added to Chemical blogspace

Monday, September 24, 2007

Using the InChI webservices as introduced by Anthony earlier, I added InChIKeys to the Chemical blogspace Molecules section:

BTW, the molecules were picked up because the (1-3)-beta-D-glucan - How moulds can make you wheeze and sneeze and What I'm up against... items linked to the glucose entry in wikipedia.

IUPAC/InChI joins the Microsoft BioIT Alliance

Thursday, September 20, 2007

On the CHMINF-L mailing list it was reported that the IUPAC InChI/InChIKey project joins Microsoft BioIT Alliance. Quoting:

The establishment of the BioIT Alliance in April 2006 by Microsoft and leading organizations in the life science industries was very much a reflection of this scenario, and the Alliance has now been extended to include a major Scientific Union, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The importance of IUPACs contribution to the enterprise lies primarily in the responsibility of this organization for establishing standards for transmitting chemical information.

I am political quite illiterate, and have no idea why the BioIT Alliance could not use InChI or InChIKey without this mashup. However, I am comforted in the knowledge that the IUPAC InChI/InChIKey project will make sure the Microsoft will not use the InChIKey as drug identifier, which would give very nice (but letal) Millenium-bug like situations when that unlike key clash was found ;)

10.000 chemistry blog posts!

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

Chemical blogspace is about to hit the 10.000 blog post since the start less than a year ago! Cheers to all bloggers!

Clean up of RSS feeds

Saturday, August 25, 2007

The number of registered RSS feeds are slightly below 150 chemistry oriented blogs; a number of them have ceased to exist, or moved to a different host, or simply changed URL. I just spent an hour or so, debugging these changes, as the Cb software does not really report that. But things are now updated again.

cb.openmolecules.net DNS problem?

Friday, August 17, 2007

In an attempt to get rdf.openmolecules.net online, it seems that the DNS system got confused; At least, the cb.openmolecules.net server is not reachable... more on this soon.

Update: OK, the DNS seems to be updated, maybe fixed itself, or some propagation problem. Anyway, now the MySQL server has gone down. So, still no running Cb :(

RDF in Chemical blogspace

Thursday, August 9, 2007

I have been playing with RDF-ing molecular space a bit, and results are getting slowly in shape:



This screenshot shows the HTML created for this RDF file on the fly by the web browser. The current version extracts information from Chemical blogspace and ChEBI (not much yet, though :).

The molecule pages in Chemical blogspace link to this RDF, and that's really what I wanted to show right now:



Why I do this? Among others, give me all boiling points for some compound with one (SPARQL) query, instead of having to browse several web resources manually. Oh, BTW, the HTML view of the RDF document uses chemical RDFa.