http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/ Chemical Informatics Letters - the latest news in chemical informatics, links to relevant web sites, analysis and discussion en Copyright (c) 2000-2007 J M Goodman Fri Aug 24 22:45:34 BST 2007 http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil.gif http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/ http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#24 PhysChem Forum is a forum for scientists doing practical research and analytical work. ... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#23 PDFBox is an open source Java PDF library for working with PDF documents. This may make it easier to extract information from PDF files.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#22 The DMCA is a US copyright law which criminalises the act of circumventing access control, even without copyright infringement. This can be used to... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#21 CogMap is an organization chart wiki, which helps people to understand organizations. It has been applied to the Beilstein database to show... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#20 How can you find out what is in a PhD thesis? Most British PhD theses are available, for a few Euros, through the... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#19 SciVee and ScienceHack both have collections of videos of scientists explaining aspects of chemistry, physics, biology, etc.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#18 Collaborative Drug Discovery enables scientists to archive, mine, and collaborate to more effectively develop new drug candidates for commercial and humanitarian markets. Free trial access... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#17 The Supernatural database contains almost forty-six thousand molecules. It is managed by the Structural Bioinformatics Group at Berlin.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#16 Can academic libraries afford open-access journals? Open access journals are welcomed because they do not require subscription payments. However, the cost is generally transferred to... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#15 The Red Cross symbol has been patented, and Johnson and Johnson has sued the American Red Cross.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#14 A research project at CMU uses a library of images to fill gaps in pictures with parts missing. The method is not infallible, but... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n2.html#13 CAS will start using 10-digit registry numbers from January 2008, to allow for the huge number of new molecules being added to the database.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#12 THESEUS is a research program, sponsored by the German government, which aims to develop better ways of using the knowledge available on the Internet.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#11 WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway-accelerating scientific discovery and progress through a multilateral partnership to enable federated searching of national and international scientific databases.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#10 This sudden announcement has only minor implications for chemistry, as the Vatican chemistry collection is small. Other routes will need to be found to... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#9 SOMA2 is a modelling environment for computational drug discovery and molecular modelling, which works through a web-browser.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#8 A computational organic chemistry blog from Professor Steven Bachrach, to accompany his book.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#7 The list of the world's top 500 computers has been updated. First position is the IBM BlueGene at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, which is... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#6 A database of crystal structures, gathered from web resources, containing about sixty thousand structures, and available from the Unilever Centre for Molecular Science Informatics.... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#5 An overview of scholarly societies... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#4 Libertas Academica publishes open access journals, including Perspectives in Medicinal Chemistry and Analytical Chemistry Insights. The latter has... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#3 The Open Library is a project to build an open, free internet archive of every book every published. It has some way still to go... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#2 The unfair use of copyright material is an important issue. Copyfraud, the false claim of copyright, is also a problem. In particular, factual data is... http://www-jmg.ch.cam.ac.uk/CIL/cil_v15n1.html#1 Optical Structure Recognition Application (OSRA) is a free program which converts pictures of molecules (in most common formats, including PDF, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF)...