As part of my work at IU I have been implementing a number of cheminformatics web services. Initially these were SOAP, but I realized that REST interfaces make life much easier. (also see here) As a result, a number of these services have simple REST interfaces. One such service provides molecular descriptor calculations, using the […]
Quick Comments on an Analysis of Antithrombotics
Joerg has made a nice blog post on the use of Open Source software and data to analyse the occurence of antithrombotics. More specifically he was trying to answer the question Which XRay ligands are closest to the Fontaine et al. structure-activity relationship data for allowing structure-based drug design? Using Blue Obelisk tools and ChemSpider […]
Extending the REST PCA Service
I recently described a REST based service for performing PCA-based visualization of chemical spaces. By visiting a URL of the form http://rguha.ath.cx/~rguha/cicc/rest/chemspace/default/ c1ccccc1,c1ccccc1CC,c1ccccc1CCC,C(=O)C(=O),CC(=O)O one would get a HTML, plain text or JSON page containing the first two principal components for the molecules specified. With this data one can generate a simple 2D plot of the […]
Chemistry in Google Docs
I met with Jean-Claude Bradley yesterday and we had a pretty useful hack session, allowing him to easily incorporate chemical and cheminformatics functionality into a GoogleDocs spreadsheet. A common task that Jean-Claude wanted to automate was the calculation of milligrams (or milliliters) of a chemical required for a certain molarity. So what we need for […]