Chemical Informatics Letters

Volume 16, Issue 3; September 2008

Editor: Jonathan M Goodman

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Symyx Technologies has Acquired MDL Information Systems from Elsevier: Symyx Technologies, Inc. has announced it has acquired certain content and software products of MDL Information Systems.
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Nature Chemistry: Chemistry@nature will be joined by Nature Chemistry in 2009.
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DIPPR ESP: An improved database of critically evaluated properties of regulated chemicals from DIPPR, which may help in the implementation of REACH (PDF).
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Depth-first: A chemical informatics blog
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PRISM: PRISM is the Partnership for Research Integrity in Science and Medicine which was "formed to advocate for policies that ensure the quality, integrity, and economic viability of peer-reviewed journals" which supports new for access to peer-reviewed journals, and is funded by publishers who will be directly affected by changes in this area. Some blog comments note they are not an impartial organisation.
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CTWatch Quarterly: CTWatch Quaterly has an issue focussed on the coming revolution in scholarly communications & cyberinfrastructure .
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Chem4Word: Microsoft Research is investigating the introduction of chemistry-related features in Microsoft Office Word
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The European Library: The European Library searches the content of national libraries in some European coutnries, including Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy-Florence, Italy-Rome, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Russia-Moscow, Russia-St.Petersburg, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom and the Vatican City.
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openBabel: FROG has donated its code for FRee Online druG conformation generation (NAR reference) to open Babel.
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ChemGate: Over 2,700 spectra from 500 compounds are available free, and many more by subscription.
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www.academia.edu: This site is not a university but a database of academics around the world. So far, the database is sparsely populated, and the editors hope that many more entries will be available in due course.
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Toxicology: In silico toxicology develops the lazar (Lazy Structure-Activity Relationships) program for the prediction of toxic activities. lazar can be used from a free webinterface or by compiling the source code. OpenTox is a project to develop a framework, that provides a unified access to toxicity data.