As I noted in my previous post, one of the nice features of Clojure is its support for concurrent programming. Now, it provides some fancy features that allow one to write complex parallel programs. I’m certainly no expert on that topic. However, one thing that I do everyday is perform operations on elements of a […]
Testing CDK Fingerprints with Clojure
Sometime back I was bored and thought that learning Lisp would be a good past time (maybe I should get a life?). I started of with SBCL and then discovered Clojure, a Lisp dialect that compiles to the JVM. The nice thing about this is that it allows one to write Lisp but also interact […]
Cheminformatics in R – rcdk
Being an R aficionado, I do the bulk of my work in R and having grown up with Emacs I tend to dislike having to exit my environment to do “other” stuff. This was the motivation for integrating R and the CDK, so that I could access and manipulate chemical information from within my R […]
Chemistry, Clouds, Collaboration (Part 2)
In my previous post I talked mainly about why there isn’t a large showing of chemistry in the cloud. It was based of Deepaks post and a FriendFeed thread, but really only addressed the first two words of the title. The issue of collaboration came up in the FriendFeed thread via some comments from Matthew […]
Chemistry, Clouds, Collaboration (Part 1)
There’s been an interesting discussion sparked by Deepaks post, asking why there is a much smaller showing of chemists and chemistry applications in the cloud compared to other life science areas. This post led to a FriendFeed thread that raised a number of issues. At a high level one can easily point out factors such […]