A Report from a Stranger in a Strange Land

I just got back from ACoP7, the yearly meeting of the International Society of Pharmacometrics (ISoP). Now, I don’t do any PK/PD modeling (hence the “strange land”) but was invited to talk about our high throughput screening platform for drug combinations. I also hoped to learn a little more about this field as well as […]

rinchi – An R package to generate InChI’s and InChI Keys

While trying to update rcdk on CRAN it was pointed out to me that usage of the library resulted in modifications to the users home directory. Specifically, this occurred when generating InChI‘s. The CDK makes use of jni-inchi, which in turn depends on JNATI which enables Java code to work with native libraries in a platform […]

Chunking lists in R

A common task for is to run database queries on gene symbols or compound identifiers. This involves constructing an SQL query as a string and sending that off to the database. In the case of the ROracle package, the query strings are limited to a 1000 (?) or so characters. This means that directly querying […]