Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Retirement

2021-01-17 Thread Craig James
t; web: https://hutchison.chem.pitt.edu/ > > On Jan 12, 2021, at 4:42 PM, Craig James wrote: > > Dear colleagues and friends, > > I am officially retired from eMolecules as of December 31st. > > I would like to say thank you to everyone involved with the BlueObelisk > pr

[BlueObelisk-discuss] Retirement

2021-01-12 Thread Craig James
Dear colleagues and friends, I am officially retired from eMolecules as of December 31st. I would like to say thank you to everyone involved with the BlueObelisk project, and particularly the OpenSMILES and IUPAC SMILES projects. It has been a fun and rewarding collaboration. I really enjoy the

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Compiling a List of Seminal Papers in Cheminformatics

2019-09-03 Thread Craig James
On Mon, Sep 2, 2019 at 6:01 AM Christoph Steinbeck < christoph.steinb...@uni-jena.de> wrote: > > for teaching and documentation purposes, I would like to compile, with > your help, a list of seminal papers in cheminformatics. > It could be hosted on BlueOblisk.org and be a guidance for teaching

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] opencheminformatics.org

2017-09-23 Thread Craig James
Expires tomorrow... On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 4:15 PM, Craig James <cja...@emolecules.com> wrote: > A while back I registered the domain name opencheminformatics.org, > thinking it would host a broader category of open-source standards and > documentation. I never used it, and the

[BlueObelisk-discuss] opencheminformatics.org

2017-08-25 Thread Craig James
A while back I registered the domain name opencheminformatics.org, thinking it would host a broader category of open-source standards and documentation. I never used it, and the domain is about to expire. If anyone would like this domain, it is yours free for the asking, with the proviso that it

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Impact

2014-05-14 Thread Craig James
I don't know if a web site qualifies as a paper... www.opensmiles.org Craig On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 3:13 AM, Egon Willighagen egon.willigha...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, some weeks ago I started making an ImpactStory profile for the Blue Obelisk. May service as back pocket material if you

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Is there a set of chemical characters/codepoints for machine-processable chemistry?

2012-09-13 Thread Craig James
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Peter Murray-Rust pm...@cam.ac.uk wrote: Has anyone compiled a set of UTF-8 codepoints (characters) that are essential for chemistry specifically in Anglophone countries and aimed at machine processing? We've found via the school of hard knocks that only

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] ODOSOS text

2012-08-29 Thread Craig James
Coincidentally, this was on SlashDot today: Five leading Internet standards bodies have joined together to articulate a set of guidelines for the creation of open standards that they say will foster continued innovation, competition and interoperability in the Internet industry. ...

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] legal rights concerning SMILES and SMARTS collections

2012-08-28 Thread Craig James
Andrew's explanation is exactly right and his citations are great. The way I've heard it explained on a legal site uses the phone book, the very case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court: Merely collecting all phone numbers in a town, no matter how much work, does not produce a copyrightable

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] legal rights concerning SMILES and SMARTS collections

2012-08-27 Thread Craig James
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Andrew Dalke da...@dalkescientific.com wrote: I recently published the Structure Query Collection, at https://bitbucket.org/dalke/sqc This is a collection of different SMILES and SMARTS used as queries against a small molecule database. I include the

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] BO meeting at ACS, San Diego?

2012-03-23 Thread Craig James
Regarding a meet-up dinner in San Diego ... only four have indicated they can make it, and now it turns out my mother is driving down from Santa Cruz to spend the weekend and Monday with us. Would Tuesday work out better for this event? Craig

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Chemical MIME types

2010-10-28 Thread Craig James
Hi Peter, What to do? I really don’t know. I can think of the following: * Go back to the IETF. Chance of success? 0.0001 Perhaps this history has been discussed before, but why is the outlook so bleak? I would think the IETF's job is to encourage such contributions. Craig

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] PDF 2 text parsing?

2010-08-16 Thread Craig James
On 8/14/10 3:41 AM, Egon Willighagen wrote: Hi all (and Peter's team in particular), Converting PDF back into text is a somewhat tricky exercise, as words can actually be characters rendered in approximately word format... Strigi [0] does a decent but not perfect recovery of text... is there

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Fwd: [InChI-discuss] Licensing of InChI software

2010-07-30 Thread Craig James
On 7/30/10 9:48 AM, Peter Murray-Rust wrote: I am forwarding the following open request from OpenEye through the InChI-discuss list. Now that gthe details are clear I would be grateful if the critical aspects could be re-reviewed. There is an issue for me and a co-author and I'd like to know

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Concerns about restrictions imposed by LGPL

2010-07-07 Thread Craig James
On 7/7/10 8:20 AM, Geoffrey Hutchison wrote: On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:48 AM, Konstantin Tokarev wrote: LGPL requires not only availability of sources, but also possibility to relink application with newer version of library. If static linking is used, COMP will need to provide needed object

[BlueObelisk-discuss] InChI on eMolecules

2010-04-13 Thread Craig James
Something new that some of you might appreciate: http://depict.emolecules.com/cgi-bin/mymol/depict.cgi?smiles=InChI%3D1S%2FC7H8N2%2Fc8-7%289%296-4-2-1-3-5-6%2Fh1-5H,%28H3,8,9%29width=400height=400colorscheme=cowformat=gifsubmit=image Thanks to InChI support in OpenBabel, it was pretty simple to

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Stereochemistry in MDL files

2010-03-03 Thread Craig James
Noel O'Boyle wrote: Are some of the wedge/hash bonds in typical MOL files unrelated to stereochemistry? That is, are some purely for depiction? If I knew this for sure, I would not retain the wedge/hash bond designations in the input but just work them out from the perceived stereo. YES.

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Input needed: Open Standards or Open Specifications?

2010-02-19 Thread Craig James
At last count, there are 38 replies to this thread. My posting to BO and OB earnestly requesting help with the SMILES aromaticity definition got ... zero replies on this forum, and one on OpenBabel, from Geoff. Just pointing this out. Open, closed, specification, standard ... it's all

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Input needed: Open Standards or Open Specifications?

2010-02-16 Thread Craig James
Egon Willighagen wrote: So, the arugment that was made on the Blue Obelisk Exchange is how this is any different from MDL molfiles, Daylight SMILES, SMD (I'd never heard about before)... has anyone ever attempted to contribute to those standards (formally or informally), and been refused?

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] Dinner at upcoming ACS SF meeting

2010-02-06 Thread Craig James
Christoph Steinbeck wrote: this is great. The crowd is growing quickly. We are nine so far. The updated list is at: http://blueobelisk.sourceforge.net/wiki/Spring_ACS_Conference_in_San_Francisco Add me to the list. Craig James

Re: [BlueObelisk-discuss] [Blueobelisk-discuss] What is an Open Standard?

2009-12-11 Thread Craig James
Egon Willighagen wrote: On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Craig James craig_ja...@emolecules.com wrote: If there are specific concerns about specific projects, then I'm all for a hearty discussion. If we want to recommend specific licenses as preferred for all OB projects, then that's

Re: [Blueobelisk-discuss] OpenSMILES: Comments in SMILES files

2009-06-26 Thread Craig James
Answering a number of comments from both BlueObelisk and OpenBabel forums, regarding the proposal to formally define how to do comments to SMILES files. To summarize my current opinion based on recent feedback: 1. A # character (not ';' or space) as the first character on a line is

[Blueobelisk-discuss] OpenSMILES: Comments in SMILES files

2009-06-24 Thread Craig James
(Cross posted to OpenBabel-discuss and BlueObelisk-discuss) A discussion has started in the OpenBabel list about comments in SMILES. Currently, the SMILES spec has no provision for comments, but some implementations allow them. For example, OpenBabel will silently ignore any line that starts

Re: [Blueobelisk-discuss] depict.emolecules.com, and downloading all eMolecules compounds

2009-05-20 Thread Craig James
Egon, It was a lot of work to collect this data, and we spend a lot of time and money keeping it very current. Doesn't the latter not include 'creativity' ? Seriously, I have no clue how creativity is defined legally, but looking at the music, movies, etc, around, is mostly is just money

[Blueobelisk-discuss] Open SMILES Standard

2007-09-26 Thread Craig James
? OpenBabel's? Both? 3. How does the community handle membership in a group dedicated to creating a document such as this? Is there a formal mechanism for creating some sort of working group, or is it all ad-hoc? Craig James