Paul visited us today (Paul Miller speaking at UCC) and gave a beautiful presentation on the Web of Data. Literally beautiful. He had worked very hard on preparing it and it flowed imperceptibly from simple beginnings to a current conclusion.

The identification of ligand binding sites on a protein is an essential step in the selection of inhibitors of protein-ligand or protein-protein interactions via virtual database screening.

I had some time to work some more on the QSAR functionality in Bioclipse. There is still much to do, but it is getting there. The calculation of a QSAR descriptor data matrix

I've posted on Nascent asking for a wishlist of plugins and tweaks to make blogging software more scientist friendly.

The accurate prediction of ligand-biopolymer binding affinities is of general interest to medicinal chemistry, as well as to the broader field of molecular recognition.

For the rest of July, Nature Chemical Biology is offering free access to about ten articles on research and training in natural products.

Peter Suber reports:

This is probably the first of many posts on Timo Hannay’s wonderful post on Foo and Beyond. From that post I realized that someone stole my dream idea. Just kidding. I did learn about the BioText project.

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