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Green Solvents App – Now sponsored by the RSC
Less than 2 years ago I tweeted about the ACS Green Chemisty Institute solvent selection guide. Within a week Alex Clark had an App on iTunes. Pretty quickly we started to get the word out and this...
View ArticleWhy are some companies slowly developing mobile apps ?
If you follow this blog, you will already know I have a bit of an interest in mobile apps for chemistry and science in general. This is through having ideas like Green Solvents, Open Drug Discovery...
View ArticleNIH Data Sharing Plan – Why ODDT could be the solution*
*(Well maybe for Tuberculosis, Malaria, Huntington’s disease, HIV/AIDS, Chagas Disease, Leishmaniasis, Hunter syndrome, Giant Axonal Neuropathy, H5N1, Fibromusclar Dysplasia, Sanfilippo Syndrome etc)...
View ArticleAmerican Chemical Society 2013 Meeting – New Orleans
I am just back from the 2013 American Chemical Society in New Orleans at which I co-chaired 2 sessions in CINF. Lots of gumbo and jambalya were consumed. A very busy meeting, so much so that I barely...
View ArticleRethinking how we present molecules in consumer products using mobile apps
It seems a long time ago that Alex Clark and I were brainstorming over beers following a local ACS meeting here in Raleigh on what cool mobile apps could be created..inspired by posters and how we...
View ArticleSummary of collaborative publications in 2013.
Time for a brief end of year summary and some insights into various papers, reviews and commentaries I was involved in this year. I have probably missed a few papers that are either not in PubMed or...
View ArticleWhy I passed on attending #scio14
For the last 2 years I have been incredibly fortunate to attend and participate in what I think is the best conference ever, namely Science Online. Antony Williams introduced me to this conference and...
View ArticleA new year and a New start – leaving the Pistoia Alliance Board of Directors
I hope I can say 2014 is a New Start. Due to my increase in time contributed to working on rare diseases through Jonah’s Just Begun, the Hereditary Neuropathy Foundation and Hannah’s Hope Fund my “free...
View ArticlePredicting Targets for TB Phenotypic Screening Hits and Openess of data and...
So far the only readily accessible, free approach to predicting TB targets is TB Mobile developed for iOS and Android with Alex Clark. While relatively crude the app does allow look up and similarity...
View ArticleWorking at the peripheries of science
Its Friday, the first full week back at work for 2014 and I am already pondering, (well mulling really) why I still do what I do. And the constant media attention for youth and success just needles me,...
View ArticleSLAS 2014
On Sunday I will be heading to the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 2014 meeting in San Diego. It will be a very quick trip to give a talk on Monday “Cheminformatics Workflows...
View ArticleOne day at SLAS – and the disruptive app as an ELN
So due to family travel limitations I was only at the SLAS meeting this year for a day (Monday) and I am very grateful for them waiving my registration to be there. In that time I gave the talk on...
View ArticleInterview for Scientific Computing World
A few weeks ago before the SLAS meeting I was invited to give a phone interview with Robert Roe at Scientific Computing World. I think he has accurately captured what I said and presented at the SLAS...
View ArticleTB Mobile version 2.0
One minute it’s submitted to the AppStore, then its approved and available already. It is amazing how fast these things can happen! Yes you are wondering what is it, well its TB Mobile version 2.0 *....
View ArticleiDrug – intelligent drug discovery
I gave a little futuristic talk the other week. I made a few edits and a few more ideas to tighten its focus. Most importantly I have changed the title and scope. I think we are approaching an era I...
View ArticleFinally after 18 years – Time for a Research Statement
Its been something I continually grapple with. As a non academic doing a diverse range of scientific projects how could I come up with a vision statement (if indeed I needed one as I have managed for...
View ArticleTalks and poster for the next ACS meeting
I put a few abstracts left over from the last meeting in Texas into the ACS for the San Francisco meeting and so I will be busy in the coming months preparing for this. see you in San Francisco,...
View ArticleA year in publications – 2014
A year in collaborative publications, the ups and downs and a few random comments as well (with a big thanks to all involved): 1. Ekins S and Freundlich JS and Coffee M, A common feature pharmacophore...
View ArticleA triple life in science
Ever since embarking on my pretty unusual career path in leaving big pharma in 2001, I have been faced with several forks in the road, hard decisions on which way to go. To join a software company or...
View ArticleTurning points and games with a purpose
Today I was talking to one of my old mentors from my postdoc days (in big pharma), for the first time in a few years. I realized that working with him and exposure to computational chemistry software...
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