January 2006 - chemweb - imperial.ac.uk

FW: Discover How The Semantic Web Can Integrate and Maximize The Silos of Information in Your Research
by Wendy Warr 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

Some chemweb subscribers may be interested in this tutorial. Wendy Dr. Wendy A. Warr Wendy Warr & Associates 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com -----Original Message----- From: Jim MacNeil [mailto:jimm@healthtech.com] Sent: 24 January 2006 18:21 To: Wendy Subject: Discover How The Semantic Web Can Integrate and Maximize The Silos of Information in Your Research Dear Wendy, On February 21, 2006 <http://www.healthtech.com/> Cambridge Healthtech Institute (CHI) in conjunction Semantic Web for Healthcare and Life <http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/hcls/> Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) with will be hosting our first Semantic Web Applications for Drug Discovery and Development tutorial February 21, 2006 in San Francisco at the Moscone North Convention Center. Click Here <https://commerce22.datapipe.com/chidb/2006/mmm/reg.asp> to register your participation. This unique tutorial is designed for managers and team leaders who struggles to unite data from disparate resources. Attend this tutorial and find out how the semantic web can integrate and maximize the silos of information in your . This powerful tool has applications across many life science arenas including R&D, project prioritization, clinical trials, translational medicine, and personalized medicine. Presenters Include: Dr. Eric Neumann, Life Science Expert, (W3C) Dr. Dennis Quan, Research Staff Member, IBM Watson Research, Tonya Hongsermeier, Medical Decision-Support Systems, Partners HealthCare Prof. Mark Musen, National Center for Biomedical Ontologies, Stanford University Matt Shanahan, CMO, Teranode Corporation John Wilbanks, Executive Director of Science Commons W3C's newly formed Semantic Web for Healthcare and Life Sciences Interest Group (HCLSIG) is tasked to identify and propose high impact uses and best practices of semantic web (SW) technologies. Issues around clinical trials and safety need to be addressed in innovative ways that leverage intelligent standards that can cover many needs. HCLSIG will sponsor discussions of these topics, work with specific consortia, and demonstrate proof-of-concepts and value through its network of technical members. Basics of SW will be presented here as well as working demonstrations by organizations and vendors. Click <https://commerce22.datapipe.com/chidb/2006/mmm/reg.asp> here to register for this upcoming tutorial. Sincerely, Jim MacNeil Senior Director of Marketing Cambridge Healthtech Institute P.S. The Semantic Web Applications for Drug Discovery and Development Tutorial is a pre-conference of the Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference. Visit www.Tri-Conference.com for complete details on this year's event. CHI, 1037 Chestnut Street, Newton Upper Falls, MA 02464 If the above information is not of interest to you, please disregard and we apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. To be removed from further emails, <http://www.chiresource.com/REMOVE.ASP?EMAIL=wendy@warr.com> click here or go to <http://www.chiresource.com/remove.asp> www.chiresource.com/remove

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Chemical podcasting
by Rzepa, Henry 24 Jan '06

24 Jan '06

An interesting variation on the "web page", the podcast seems to be taking off in chemistry. To start, see http://www.podcastingnews.com/topics/Podcast_Software.html The best developed/integrated environment (arguably) is iTunes. Fire it up and go to the Music store section, then select the sub-category Podcasts. A search on chemistry reveals a little of what is now available (Apple only have Science as a category, and not chemistry as a sub-category, so chemistry is there only by virtue of appearing in eg the title of any given podcast). The basic podcast is an audio file, although more recently video podcasts (vodcasts?) have started appearing. Rather more messy, is the "enhanced" podcast (which smacks of lack of planning and foresight!). This entrains artwork (ie slides, Acrobat files etc) at various trigger points in an audio stream; it means that "enhancement" is only possible for audio, not video. A few of these have started appearing as well (its what SMIL was supposed to achieve a few years back). I might mention that the "molcast" (or "chemcast") appears to have been invented somewhat before the podcast became popular (it was called CMLRSS then, which is why it probably did not catch on!). The theory is that the podcast solves the "bandwidth" problem, assumed to be an issue for eg students and others with slow Internet connections, in that the content is delivered at "off peak" times without the user being present, and can then be rapidly transferred to a mobile device such as an iPod (or I suppose in the future a mobile phone). The idea of a student revising for their quantum chemistry exam by peering at their iPod or phone makes for an interesting vision. Is anyone on this list investing in this genre? -- Henry Rzepa. +44 (020) 7594 5774 (Voice); +44 (0870) 132 3747 (eFax); rzepahs(a)mac.com (iChat) http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/rzepa/ Dept. Chemistry, Imperial College London, SW7 2AZ, UK. (Voracious anti-spam filter in operation for received email. If expected reply not received, please phone/fax).

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ICSTI workshop, Paris
by Wendy Warr 12 Jan '06

12 Jan '06

Apologies for duplicate postings of this meeting announcement. Information and Data in e-Science. Making Seamless Access a Reality February 3, 2006 Carré des Sciences 1, rue Descartes Paris <http://www.icsti.org/winter_mtg_2006/index.html> http://www.icsti.org/winter_mtg_2006/index.html Agenda at http://www.icsti.org/winter_mtg_2006/workshop_agenda.html Wendy Dr. Wendy A. Warr Wendy Warr & Associates 6 Berwick Court, Holmes Chapel Cheshire, CW4 7HZ, England Tel./fax +44 (0)1477 533837 wendy(a)warr.com http://www.warr.com

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ChemAxon announces free cheminformatics toolkit provision for non-commercial freely accessible web resources
by Alex Allardyce 03 Jan '06

03 Jan '06

Hi, Please excuse cross postings ChemAxon announces the launch of the "FreeWeb" package to provide it's chemical editing, viewing, search, property calculation and database management toolkits at no cost to freely accessible web resources being operated for non-commercial purposes. In addition to unlimited licenses, upgrades and support will be provided. Following from the success of ChemAxon's Academic Package, which gives all products free for academic teaching and research, the FreeWeb package aims to increase the quality and capabilities of publicly accessible online chemical research resources. Toolkits included within the package: The Marvin Java applet family for creating chemical queries, viewing results and ligand/macromolecular analysis; JChem Base and JChem Cartridge to allow chemical searching and database management; Standardiser allowing business rules for structure management and Calculator Plugins to provide a range of structure based properties interesting to researchers for content held by the provider. For more information please see this link at our website: http://www.chemaxon.com/prices.html To see the press release source at the PRNewswire website, please visit: http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/01-0… Thanks Alex

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