The ChemConnector Blog by Antony Williams

I’ve previously blogged about the book chapter I co-authored for a book about Beautiful Data. The book chapter is now available online at Scribd after being uploaded by Jean-Claude Bradley. Feel free to go take a gander.

Last year I co-authored a book chapter in a book regarding Chemical Information Mining. A recent review for the book was recently written by Peter Willett and it was nice to get a good mention for our section:
“This book discusses the use of text-mining techniques that would enable such operations to be carried out by purely computational means. The techniques are clearly attractive in terms of cost-effectiveness but would appear, from this volume, to require considerably more research before they can provide a realistic alternative to human processing. Two chapters – Automated identification and conversion of chemical names to structure-searchable information  and Identification of chemical images and conversion to structure-searchable information  – stand out, providing critical, wide-ranging reviews of their respective topics that I am sure that I shall return to in the future. ”

It’s nice to be appreciated for “after-hours” work.