While most might equate my interests, and this blog, with biology, the fact remains that I am a trained chemist. Which is why it gives me great pleasure to see chemistry opening up a little bit. Some of my favorite bloggers are chemists, and with people like Rich, Rajarshi and Egon active online, there is a good programming/informatics presence as well.
Cameron has an great blog post up where he talks about the growth of linked data in chemistry, a world that has historically suffered from a lack of open data, and the data sharing that is more prevalent in biology (out of sheer necessity in some respects). I continue to be very impressed by the direction Chemspider has taken, essentially becoming a resource of open structured information. Work by Egon and Rajarshi, and their services-centric approach is a great example of how chemical information in the right hands can be leveraged effectively.
Will be very interesting to see how the chemistry community evolves on the web, and how it integrates with the biology world. Not sure it’s going to happen anytime soon, but would be great to be able to pull up information about proteins, known inhibitors, and all kinds of other information through simple services.
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Thanks for the recognition for our efforts at ChemSpider. I am not sure that people are aware of the work we have done to expose web services to the community but there are a series of Mass Spec vendors who have already connected our MassSpec services directly to their instrumentation software (for example: Thermo, Waters etc). Also, services are the basis of the Spectral game we have been working on with Andy Lang and Jean-Claude Bradley. : http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-spectral-gam...
There are thousands of transactions on ChemSpider everyday now that are service based. It's a new world…
Thanks for the recognition for our efforts at ChemSpider. I am not sure that people are aware of the work we have done to expose web services to the community but there are a series of Mass Spec vendors who have already connected our MassSpec services directly to their instrumentation software (for example: Thermo, Waters etc). Also, services are the basis of the Spectral game we have been working on with Andy Lang and Jean-Claude Bradley. : http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-spectral-gam...
There are thousands of transactions on ChemSpider everyday now that are service based. It's a new world…