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17 Jan 2022: When people ask me for examples of why Open Data matters, I always refer them to the Openness of bioscience – or at least those parts close to the Central Dogma (DNA->

17 Jan 2022: From time to time people get presented with Blue Obelisks and the latest recipient is Ola Spjuth.

17 Jan 2022: People often think (and I’ve been guilty of this) that there is a lot of junk in Pubchem (although the proportion is … Continue reading.

17 Jan 2022: Excerpt: On one side of an electoral boundary, people might buy sun-blushed tomatoes; on the other, economy baked beans.

17 Jan 2022: When we go to meetings people (often in industry) say things like: “Oh we use OSCAR for identifying compounds and it’s very useful”, “We started using InChI and it’s

17 Jan 2022: TL;DR We had a great session at FORCE2015 yesterday in Oxford – people liked it, understood it, and are wanting to join us.

17 Jan 2022: AMI and Brenda] We had a very well attended (full Unitarian Church) of Cambridge people wishing to hear about TTIP (“Tee-tip”) the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnershipl.

17 Jan 2022: I’m serious. From start to finish this was a superb three-day meeting of young people who know that current scholarship/publishing/university_practice has so many injustices and so

17 Jan 2022: Many people now feel that the CC-NC and CC-ND licences are counterproductive – I estimate that in “Open Access” alone this is costing >> 1 billion USD in forbidding re-use

17 Jan 2022: The 1.5 day hackathon prequel to the SWAT4LS workshop was a great success – at least all the 30+ people there thought so.