Feb 26, 2008

YACJ - Nature Chemistry

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April 2009 sees the launch of yet another chemistry journal, this one coming from Nature Publishing Group. It will, apparently, “provide a unique forum for the publication of high-quality research in all areas of chemistry.” Well, they would say that, they’re hardly going to tell us it’s a run-of-the-mill publication offering tedious and dead-end research, are they?

The launch site usefully reminds us that, “Chemistry is concerned with the study of matter on all …

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Feb 18, 2008

Drug Design on the Playstation

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Serious drug design researchers are apparently hacking their PS3 machines to turn them into drug discovery workhorses. At least that’s according to my alma mater New Scientist magazine. It’s the kind of catchy subject they cover and is a classic from Mike Nagle.

The PS3 console uses a Cell chip, made by IBM, Sony and Toshiba, which is composed of a CPU and eight slave processors that run on Linux. According to NS, this …

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Jan 29, 2008

PaperID - An Open Source Identifier for Research Papers

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As a journalist, I receive a lot of press releases that cite “forthcoming” papers. Depending on the publisher one can usually find the paper in a pre-press state on their website. However, it’s often the case that the DOI does not go live at the same time as the embargo expires on the press release, and so I might legitimately publish an article about the research I cannot use the DOI as the reference and …

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