Dec 20, 2005
Posted at 9:58 am by David Bradley
Elsevier MDL announced on December 19 that it is working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help catalog additional information on the biological properties of small molecules in the freely available PubChem database. A press release says that Elsevier MDL will enrich the growing PubChem resource for the scientific community by furnishing chemical structures from Elsevier’s xPharm database, giving scientists with an xPharm license the ability to move from biological data in PubChem …
Posted at 7:48 am by David Bradley
Read David Bradley’s virtual interview with chemical internet pioneer Peter Murray-Rust co-inventor of the chemical MIME type and the INChI code. Also, in this celebratory issue 50 of Reactive Reports: water hanging by a thread, colour-shifting dopy glass, and Google for chemists in the form of Chmoogle
Dec 16, 2005
Posted at 8:41 am by David Bradley
Sex smells, according to Joshuah Bearman of the LAWeekly who wrote to sciencebase today to alert us to his article on King Kong’s Monkey Love (obviously, he’s well aware that Kong is an ape not a monkey, but allow him some artistic licence, he is after all telling us about the birds and the bees, well beast, actually).
Anyway, his essay meanders from Gigantopithecus blacki, the 12-foot prehistoric ape that died out …
