As of now, there’s a KNIME plugin that can be used to access data from the BioAssay Express. The plugin uses the existing API functionality that can grab all of the available bioassay protocols, or a subset as defined by a query, and bring them into the KNIME ecosystem as a table which can be processed using the multitude of other node types. Continue reading →

ACS time is sneaking up on us, as it tends to do: in about 2 months from now – August 2018 – a large proportion of the world’s chemistry community will be converting in Boston, including myself. This particular city is probably my favourite venue, simply by virtue of being such a massive hub for various forms of chemistry and derived industries, such as small molecule drug discovery.

My presentation will be on the Wednesday:

Paper ID	2972556 / CINF 150
Title	Bringing assay protocols into the age of informatics
Session	Drug Discovery: Cheminformatic Approaches
Section	Division of Chemical Information
Time	1:30pm, Wednesday 22 August 2018

As for the last couple of meetings, I will be presenting aspects of the BioAssay Express project, on behalf of Collaborative Drug Discovery. Our team has been quietly expanding in numbers and working hard making the product more powerful and more polished, so there are lots of new features to talk about!

The interactive sketcher feature in WebMolKit now has a more accessible demo page at molmatinf.com/webmolkit.html. Continue reading →

Last week I had the pleasure of representing Collaborative Drug Discovery at the BioIT World Hackathon, themed around FAIR data principles. Continue reading →

After a bit of inattention, the MolPress project has received some important new features: chemical objects are rendered within the editor itself, and there’s a better onboarding process for bringing in reactions. Continue reading →

Two new features have been added to the XMDS macOS app lately (see beta & AppStore): fine control of atom/bond geometry from a dialog box, and automatic display of atom oxidation state. Continue reading →

The most recent version of XMDS has a couple of useful new features: creating an abbreviation out of a group of atoms automatically reuses known labels, and there’s now an RDfile export feature for datasheets with the reaction Experiment aspect. Continue reading →