Category Archives: Chemistry

Web as platform: ChemVendor and the chemical web

By Deepak Singh | Published: March 1, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I have talked before about Assay Depot, which is a web-based assay provisioning portal written in Ruby on Rails (or does it include some bits of Merb now?). From MetaMolecular comes ChemVendor, a chemical product management system also written in Ruby on Rails. ChemVendor is a system that puts chemical entities at it’s [...]
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More on chemistry and the data web

By Deepak Singh | Published: February 23, 2009
Image via Wikipedia I should blog about chemistry more often. Recent thoughts on Chemistry on the Web and observations from my day job in the disparity of usage and awareness between biology and chemistry led to a post on Friendfeed. That’s becoming a fairly active discussion and led to a couple of posts by [...]
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Chemistry on the data web

By Deepak Singh | Published: February 21, 2009
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, [...]
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When molecules go viral

By Deepak Singh | Published: February 4, 2009
Image by Shevralay via Flickr What happens when a compound goes viral? I am sure you’ve thought about this many times. For the 2 of you not on FriendFeed, I point you to a post by Antony Williams on the Chemspider blog where he announces embeddable chemical structures. Picking up on an idea [...]
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Web as platform: A chemistry journal on the web

By Deepak Singh | Published: December 12, 2008
Image via WikipediaEarlier today, I read this interesting blog post from Antony Williams announcing The ChemSpider Journal of Chemistry. In his words The ChemSpider Journal of Chemistry is an experiment. We intend to demonstrate how modern web technologies can be used to dramatically enhance the type of information that can be communicated using web-based tools [...]
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