They say you should "preferably be based in the UK", but perhaps telecommuting is an option...
We are looking for people to join our team of freelance contributors for the prestigious publication Dictionary of Organic Compounds and its sister dictionaries.
Requirements:
PhD in organic/medicinal chemistry
Knowledge of chemical nomenclature and stereochemistry
Attention to detail
You will also need access to a good chemistry library and will preferably be based in the UK.
If interested please email your CV/resume, stating how many hours per week you would be able to work, to:
Dr Fiona Macdonald
Chemistry Publisher
CRC Press/Taylor and Francis Books
24-25 Blades Court, Deodar Road
London SW15 2NU
Email: fiona.macdonald@informa.com
URL www.chemnetbase.com
From the CHMINF-L list, Feb 28/07
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
New Product: Scopus (Elsevier)
Scopus is Elsevier's uber-indexing tool, covering science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and a smattering of other general topics.
It also has citation tracking, much like Web of Science and Google Scholar.
It will soon be on our Research Databases list, but in the meantime, access it via: http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.scopus.com
It also has citation tracking, much like Web of Science and Google Scholar.
It will soon be on our Research Databases list, but in the meantime, access it via: http://ezproxy.lib.ucalgary.ca:2048/login?url=http://www.scopus.com
ScienceDirect (Elsevier) Unavailable Sat., Feb 24
A message from Elsevier. (06:00 AM EST is 04:00 AM Calgary time):
ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, February 24th for approximately 9 hours starting at 06:00 AM EST (11:00 GMT). During this time engineers will be implementing a large-scale rebuilding program on some of core aspects of the platform's underlying technologies, which will help ensure that the system continues to provide a high level of reliability in the coming years.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users, which we hope we can minimise by providing this advance notice. Users who log in will see a notice saying that the system is temporarily unavailable.
ScienceDirect will be unavailable on Saturday, February 24th for approximately 9 hours starting at 06:00 AM EST (11:00 GMT). During this time engineers will be implementing a large-scale rebuilding program on some of core aspects of the platform's underlying technologies, which will help ensure that the system continues to provide a high level of reliability in the coming years.
We apologize for any inconvenience that this will cause to ScienceDirect users, which we hope we can minimise by providing this advance notice. Users who log in will see a notice saying that the system is temporarily unavailable.
Friday, February 09, 2007
A post for Friday, and Valentine's Day
CambridgeSoft has some Chemistry e-cards for Valentine's Day (or, the "chocolate holiday", as I heard someone refer to it.)
http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com/SciCards/Valentine.cfm
Enjoy!
http://scistore.cambridgesoft.com/SciCards/Valentine.cfm
Enjoy!
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Oxford Drug Discovery Workshop Bursary
A Bursary Award sponsored by Chemical Computing Group (CCG) will be used to support the attendance of one academic participant at the eCheminfo Drug Discovery workshop week which will be held at the Chemical Research Laboratory, Oxford University the week of 25-29 June 2007.
Applicants can be working in any area of research related to drug discovery. To apply for the bursary please send an email with a) description of your research; your training needs (ca. 500 words each), b) your CV to echeminfo [-at]- douglasconnect.com by 28 February. The recipient of the award will be selected based on an evaluation of the quality and innovation of the described research and the potential positive impact of the training on their research progress and will be notified by 15 March. We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship support of CCG.
More information:
Program & Schedule with Abstracts & Bios: http://www.echeminfo.com/COMTY_training/
Program (as pdf):
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/
files/eChemProgramOxford07-v3web.PDF
News Updates on Cheminfostream Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/
best regards
Barry Hardy
eCheminfo Community of Practice Manager
Barry Hardy, PhD
Douglas Connect
Zeiningen, CH-4314
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 851 0170
From the CHMINF email list, Feb 6/07
Applicants can be working in any area of research related to drug discovery. To apply for the bursary please send an email with a) description of your research; your training needs (ca. 500 words each), b) your CV to echeminfo [-at]- douglasconnect.com by 28 February. The recipient of the award will be selected based on an evaluation of the quality and innovation of the described research and the potential positive impact of the training on their research progress and will be notified by 15 March. We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship support of CCG.
More information:
Program & Schedule with Abstracts & Bios: http://www.echeminfo.com/COMTY_training/
Program (as pdf):
http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/
files/eChemProgramOxford07-v3web.PDF
News Updates on Cheminfostream Blog: http://barryhardy.blogs.com/cheminfostream/
best regards
Barry Hardy
eCheminfo Community of Practice Manager
Barry Hardy, PhD
Douglas Connect
Zeiningen, CH-4314
Switzerland
Tel: +41 61 851 0170
From the CHMINF email list, Feb 6/07
Monday, February 05, 2007
Call For Papers: 'Cheminformatics Techniques in Bioinformatics-Related Applications' at the Fall ACS National Meeting
234th ACS National Meeting,
Boston, MA. August 19-23, 2007
CINF division
Cheminformatics Techniques in Bioinformatics-Related Applications
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Dear Colleagues,
The field of bioinformatics utilizes a variety of different forms of representation ranging from string sequences to 3D molecular structure. Though cheminformatics generally focuses on the structure of small molecules, there have been a number of applications of cheminformatics techniques to problems in the field of bioinformatics. Examples include similarity measures for DNA and peptide sequences, topological descriptors applied to proteomic maps and so on. In addition, though many biological problems involve molecular structures, traditional cheminformatics techniques may require modifications to efficiently handle large structures such as proteins. Finally a number of topics broadly related to systems biology, such as metabolic networks and mass spectrum prediction, can involve the analysis of chemical structure.
You are invited to submit papers that cover issues in the
* Applications of cheminformatics techniques and concepts to biological and bioinformatics problems
* Extension and tailoring of cheminformatics algorithms to handle bioinformatics problems
* Applications of cheminformatics in a systems biology context
Please use OASYS (http://oasys.acs.org/acs/234nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi)
to submit your abstracts. The deadline for submitting abstracts is
April 2nd, 2007.
Symposium organizers:
Rajarshi Guha
School of Informatics
Indiana University
rguha@indiana.edu
Ph: 814-404-5449
Leah Solla
Physical Sciences Library
Cornell University
lrm1@cornell.edu
Ph: 607-255-1361
From the CHMINF mailing list, Feb 5/07
Boston, MA. August 19-23, 2007
CINF division
Cheminformatics Techniques in Bioinformatics-Related Applications
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dear Colleagues,
The field of bioinformatics utilizes a variety of different forms of representation ranging from string sequences to 3D molecular structure. Though cheminformatics generally focuses on the structure of small molecules, there have been a number of applications of cheminformatics techniques to problems in the field of bioinformatics. Examples include similarity measures for DNA and peptide sequences, topological descriptors applied to proteomic maps and so on. In addition, though many biological problems involve molecular structures, traditional cheminformatics techniques may require modifications to efficiently handle large structures such as proteins. Finally a number of topics broadly related to systems biology, such as metabolic networks and mass spectrum prediction, can involve the analysis of chemical structure.
You are invited to submit papers that cover issues in the
* Applications of cheminformatics techniques and concepts to biological and bioinformatics problems
* Extension and tailoring of cheminformatics algorithms to handle bioinformatics problems
* Applications of cheminformatics in a systems biology context
Please use OASYS (http://oasys.acs.org/acs/234nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi)
to submit your abstracts. The deadline for submitting abstracts is
April 2nd, 2007.
Symposium organizers:
Rajarshi Guha
School of Informatics
Indiana University
rguha@indiana.edu
Ph: 814-404-5449
Leah Solla
Physical Sciences Library
Cornell University
lrm1@cornell.edu
Ph: 607-255-1361
From the CHMINF mailing list, Feb 5/07
Friday, February 02, 2007
Project Prospect from the Royal Society of Chemistry
<The RSC just launched this new feature for papers published from Feb 1/07 onwards. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like it applies to all papers (not sure why), but it looks pretty neat, and I can see how it might come in handy.
See it in action:
What you'll need to do is find an abstract that has an "HTML Article (Prospect View)" link. (Prospect View is the key phrase here.) HTML articles with Prospect View have a "toolbox" that is a combination of navigator, glossary and "highlighter".
The "highlighter" function shows/hides IUPAC Gold book terms, ontology terms and compounds in the article. Click on any of those terms to get the respective Gold book definition, ontology definition, and for compounds, synonyms, SMILES and InChI codes.
It's worth a look, and more and more articles will be processed this way, from the sounds of it. The full press release is below...
RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is pleased to announce a new initiative for its journals. From February 2007 electronic RSC journal papers will be enhanced so that their data can be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine, a first step towards the "semantic web". Readers will be able to click on named compounds and scientific concepts in an electronic journal article to download structures, understand topics, or link through to electronic databases; compounds and ontology terms will be published as RSS feeds enabling automated discovery of relevant research.
See it in action:
What you'll need to do is find an abstract that has an "HTML Article (Prospect View)" link. (Prospect View is the key phrase here.) HTML articles with Prospect View have a "toolbox" that is a combination of navigator, glossary and "highlighter".
The "highlighter" function shows/hides IUPAC Gold book terms, ontology terms and compounds in the article. Click on any of those terms to get the respective Gold book definition, ontology definition, and for compounds, synonyms, SMILES and InChI codes.
It's worth a look, and more and more articles will be processed this way, from the sounds of it. The full press release is below...
RSC Publishing, the publishing arm of the Royal Society of Chemistry, is pleased to announce a new initiative for its journals. From February 2007 electronic RSC journal papers will be enhanced so that their data can be read, indexed and intelligently searched by machine, a first step towards the "semantic web". Readers will be able to click on named compounds and scientific concepts in an electronic journal article to download structures, understand topics, or link through to electronic databases; compounds and ontology terms will be published as RSS feeds enabling automated discovery of relevant research.
The initiative, coined 'Project Prospect', is the first of its scope from a primary research publisher. Developed together with UK academics based at the Unilever Centre of Molecular Informatics and the Computing Laboratory at Cambridge University, the Project uses InChIs (IUPAC's International Chemical Identifier for compounds); OBO ontology terms (Open Biomedical Ontologies: a hierarchical classification of biomedical terms) such as the Gene Ontology (GO) and the related Sequence Ontology (SO); terms from the IUPAC Gold Book; and CML (Chemical Markup Language: a means to describe molecular information in a structured form).
This is a completely free service for authors and readers of RSC journals. The enhanced articles have an at a glance HTML view with additional features accessed by a tool box. Downloadable compound structures and printer friendly versions will be available via this new service
'Project Prospect demonstrates our commitment to invest in innovative technologies to provide our authors and readers with the best publishing service available', said the RSC's Acting Managing Director, Robert Parker
Midori Harris, GO's editor from the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Hinxton, UK, welcomes the developments: 'We're delighted by the RSC's decision to use GO and SO terms to annotate scientific papers they publish. It's an exciting application of ontologies that will help researchers search the ever-growing body of scientific literature more quickly and effectively. We hope to see more publishers following the RSC's example in the future.'
The RSC intends to develop the Project over the coming months and years to increase the amount of structured science in their research articles.
To find out more about the project please contact me at projectprospect@rsc.org or visit the project website at http://www.rsc.org/Publishing/Journals/
ProjectProspect/index.asp
With best wishes,
Richard KiddManager, Editorial Production Systems
From the CHMINF-L list, Feb 1/07
Librarians Back in Science A 124, Wolcott Lab
February 5- April 11
Don MacMillan (Biology, Physics/Astronomy) will be there
Mondays, 11am - 1pm
Jennifer Lee (Chemistry, Mathematics/Statistics, Environmental Design) will be there
Wednesdays, 10am - noon
Don MacMillan (Biology, Physics/Astronomy) will be there
Mondays, 11am - 1pm
Jennifer Lee (Chemistry, Mathematics/Statistics, Environmental Design) will be there
Wednesdays, 10am - noon
CINF Scholarship for Scientific Excellence Sponsored by FIZ Chemie Berlin
The scholarship program of the Division of Chemical Information (CINF) of the American Chemical Society (ACS) funded by FIZ CHemie Berlin is designed to reward graduate and postdoctoral students in chemical information and related sciences for scientific excellence and to foster their involvement in CINF.
Three scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be given out at the 234th ACS National Meeting in Boston, August 19 -23, 2007. Applicants have to be enrolled at a certified college or university. They have to present a poster during the Sci-Mix session at the National Meeting. Abstracts for the posters have to be submitted electronically through OASYS before April 2, 2007. Please, go to http://oasys.acs.org/acs/234nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi and click on Sci-Mix. To enter your abstract, just follow the instructions. At the same time, inform the Chair of the selection committee, Guenter Grethe at ggrethe@comcast.net, that you are applying for a scholarship. Additionally, a 2,000-word long abstract describing the work to be presented has to be sent in electronic form to the Chair of the selection committee by June 15, 2007. Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should be directed to the same e-mail address.
Winners will be chosen based on contents, presentation and relevance of the poster and they will be announced at the meeting. The contents shall reflect upon the student's work and describe research in the field of cheminformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked "Winner of the CINF-FIZ Chemie Berlin Academic Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.
From the CHMINF-L list, Feb 2/07
Three scholarships valued at $1,000 each will be given out at the 234th ACS National Meeting in Boston, August 19 -23, 2007. Applicants have to be enrolled at a certified college or university. They have to present a poster during the Sci-Mix session at the National Meeting. Abstracts for the posters have to be submitted electronically through OASYS before April 2, 2007. Please, go to http://oasys.acs.org/acs/234nm/cinf/papers/index.cgi and click on Sci-Mix. To enter your abstract, just follow the instructions. At the same time, inform the Chair of the selection committee, Guenter Grethe at ggrethe@comcast.net, that you are applying for a scholarship. Additionally, a 2,000-word long abstract describing the work to be presented has to be sent in electronic form to the Chair of the selection committee by June 15, 2007. Any questions related to applying for one of the scholarships should be directed to the same e-mail address.
Winners will be chosen based on contents, presentation and relevance of the poster and they will be announced at the meeting. The contents shall reflect upon the student's work and describe research in the field of cheminformatics and related sciences. Winning posters will be marked "Winner of the CINF-FIZ Chemie Berlin Academic Scientific Excellence" at the poster session.
From the CHMINF-L list, Feb 2/07
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