Having recently bigged up the Chemicalize system that lets you view any web page or chunk of text containing chemical names with inline structures and links to property information generated on-the-fly, I thought I’d offer the Chemicalize team a little challenge via Alex Allardyce: to write a Wordpress plugin so that I could Chemicalize all the pages on my site and so save visitors a click or two.
The semantic web is slowly but surely emerging from academia and offering useful ways to handle data, let’s hope they don’t start calling it Web 3.0 though, eh?
Chemicalize.org could be seen as one way in which chemists might benefit from the semantic web, paste in text, structures, or a web address and it will send back the whole gamut of chemical information about the compounds mention in the text. Once I’d started using …
Chemicalize.org is a new, free service from ChemAxon. It uses their “name to structure” parsing and structure-based predictions to identify chemical structures from web pages and other text and provide predicted data related to each structure, which seems like a rather neat trick to me. I used it to add some chemical information to a blog post about the monkshood toxin, acinitine, on my Imaging Storm site earlier this week.
After 75 issues and ten years of the chemistry webzine, Reactive Reports, one of the first
chemistry news sites to be launched way back in 1999, the site has been given a makeover. More than a makeover, a complete overhaul and replacement of old worn-out body parts.
Reactive Reports is now wholly owned and produced by David Bradley Science Writer, hosted on an independent web server, with an entirely new theme, content management system (CMS) and ethos. The Reactive
Reports archives remain in place of course, although the popular, older content
is gradually being incorporated into the new CMS, so that it follows the new theme.
This has the added advantage of enabling comments on the converted pages,
something that was missing from the old theme.
A new, flexible publishing schedule removes the site from the monthly news cycle and allows Reactive Reports to bring you cutting edge chemistry as soon as we hear about it. Now with support from a computers, electronics and software and Westwood College, which offers you the opportunity to earn an Online Degree.
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