Category Archives: Chemistry

Chemicalize

By Deepak Singh | Published: August 22, 2010

It’s ACS time in Boston, and there is a steady stream of tweets from the conference which you can track. Prior to the conference there were a couple of topics related to chemistry on the web which I’ve been meaning to write about. Better late than never I guess. The first one is Chemicalize, a [...]

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Data that does not belong

By Deepak Singh | Published: June 27, 2010

In a recent post on what should and shouldn’t be published, Derek Lowe writes (emphasis mine) Perhaps there should be a way to dump chemical data directly into some archives, the way X-ray data goes into the Protein Data Bank. That wouldn’t count for much, but it would capture things for future use. Having it [...]

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Chemvoice – Social chemistry news

By Deepak Singh | Published: May 28, 2010

Rich Apodaca continues to test various intersections of the web and chemistry. His latest project is Chemvoice, which reminds me of Metafilter in some ways, Reddit and Stack Overflow in others. Essentially, it’s a site that allows users to post links to articles and then people can comment or post on them, etc. It looks [...]

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PubChem, CouchDB and data pipelines

By Deepak Singh | Published: January 29, 2010

Rich Apodaca has a great set of blog posts on using PubCouch, the CouchDB interface for PubChem. The series is great in itself, but I was especially intrigued by the title of the third installment, PubCouch: Streams Aren’t Just for Pipeline Pilot. In the post Rich describes how PubCouch makes it possible to work with [...]

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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 [...]

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