Update (07/28/16): DrugBank/OMx have updated the licensing conditions for DrugBank data in response to concerns raised earlier by various people and groups. See here for a detailed response from Craig Knox A few days back I came across, via my Twitter network, the news that DrugBank had changed their licensing policy to CC BY-SA-NC 4.0. As […]
Software for the “Federation of Independent Scientists”
A few days back, Derek Lowe posted a comment from a reader who suggested a way to approach the current employment challenges in the pharmaceutical industry would be the formation of a Federation of Independent Scientists. Such a federation would be open to consultants, small companies etc and would use its size to obtain group […]
Nice Article on Open Source Cheminformatics
I met Viven Marx at the BioIT World conference held in Boston earlier this month, in which I spoke on the topic of Open Source cheminformatics. The result of conversations between myself (and Peter Murray Rust) and here were incorporated into an interesting article. (Though the CDK was started at Notre Dame, but is now […]
Why Academic Cheminformatics is Important
I’m in academia and I do cheminformatics. Recent collaborations, papers and funding issues in this field have made me think about the future of this research in this setting. This, and a thread discussing David Leahy’s talk on InkSpot Science at the Soton Open Science Workshop got me started on this post. There are currently […]