Recently I came across a paper from Marth et al that described a method based on network analysis to support retrosynthetic planning, particularly for complex natural products. I’m no synthetic chemist so I can’t comment on the relevance or importance of the targets or the significance of the proposed approach to planning a synthetic route. […]
Cleaning up a WAR in a SBT Build
Recently some of our software projects have beging using SBT to build them using Build.scala (rather than build.sbt). One of the challenges (apart from learning Scala to build a Java project!) was removing some unneeded JAR files from a WAR build. I use xsbt-web-plugin to provide support for WAR packaging. It turns out that the […]
A Model Building IDE?
Recently I came across a NIPS2015 paper from Vartak et al that describes a system (APIs + visual frontend) to support the iterative model building process. The problem they are addressing is common one in most machine learning settings – building multiple models (different type) using various features and identifying one or more optimal models to […]