Yesterday I attended the High Content Analysis conference in San Francisco. Over the last few months I’ve been increasingly involved in the analysis of high content screens, both for small molecules and siRNA. This conference gave me the opportunity to meet people working in the field as well as present some of our recent work […]
Wikipedia Category Hierarchy via N-triples
For a current project I needed to obtain a hierarchical representation of Wikipedia categories. (which can be explored here). Pierre Lindenbaum provided some useful pointers on using the Mediawiki API. However, this was a little unweildy. Instead, I came across the DBpedia downloads. More specifically, the SKOS categories files provide the links between categories using […]
2nd Call for Papers – ICCS, 2011
This has already been posted on some mailing lists, but one more place can’t hurt. The International Conference on Chemical Structures (ICCS) is coming up in June, 2011 at Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands. I’m on the scientific advisory board and am planning to attend this meeting, as the topics being covered look pretty interesting, especially those focusing […]
Visualizing PAINS SMARTS
A few days ago I had made available a SMARTS version of the PAINS substructural filters, that were converted using CACTVS from the original SLN patterns. I had mentioned that the SMARTSViewer application was a handy way to visualize the complex SMARTS patterns. Matthias Rarey let me know that his student had converted all the […]
Similarity Matrices in Parallel
Today I got an email asking whether it’d be possible to speed up a fingerprint similarity matrix calculation in R. Now, pairwise similarity matrix calculations (whether they’re for molecules or sequences or anything else) are by definition quadratic in nature. So performing these calculations for large collections aren’t always feasible – in many cases, it’s […]