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Chemical blogs history

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/17/chemical-blogs-history.html

Published: January 17, 2026 00:00

Like many awesome internet phenomena, blogging started in the late nineties. Nature authors and editors recognized the effort early. In 2006 there were already more than 45 million blogs, and at least 50 science blogs made it in the top 50,000 and 5 in the…

Where does the WikiPathways Cited In information come from?

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/10/where-does-the-wikipathways-cited-in-information-come-from.html

Published: January 10, 2026 00:00

I have been wanting to blog about this since this summer, but with everything going on, I never really got around to it. What is this Cited In feature of WikiPathways and where does that information come from? If you have not noticed this yet, this is what…

PlantMetWiki: a linked open data service for querying and analyzing plant pathway knowledge

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2026/01/05/plantmetwiki.html

Published: January 5, 2026 00:00

Back on October I presented Everything you always wanted to know: plant pathway modelling in WikiPathways (doi:10.5281/zenodo.18149988) at the Knowledge Graphs for Plant and Microbiome Multiomics symposium (see this archived LinkedIn post) on 14th October…

Rescuing Scholia #2: getting closer

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/12/31/rescuing-scholia-2-getting-close.html

Published: December 31, 2025 00:00

Three weeks ago, I wrote a the post Rescuing Scholia: will we make it in time?, where I sketched a future without Scholia. Scholia, started almost 10 years ago and I think it is worth keeping around longer.

Open Infrastructures #1: Research Software Directory

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/12/29/open-infrastructures.html

Published: December 29, 2025 00:00

Research software is an integral part of scientific investigations.

Rescuing Scholia: will we make it in time?

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/12/08/rescuing-scholia.html

Published: December 8, 2025 00:00

What started out in 2016 on Twitter became a (small) award winning decade long collaborative project. Unfortunately, the future is not clear. We are at odds if it will survice the growth of Wikidata and in particularly the SPARQL graph split. To be clear,…

WikiPathways curation reports on profile pages

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/11/30/wikipathways-curation-reports-on-profile-pages.html

Published: November 30, 2025 00:00

I have been running automated curation tests for many years now, at least from before 2018. Because it has been done without funding, it has not been as nicely integrated, and depends, for example, first on the RDF generation to be integrated in the GitHub…

20 years of blogging

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/10/15/20-years-of-blogging.html

Published: October 15, 2025 00:00

Today, exactly 20 years ago I started this blog. Two years ago I decided to upgrade my blog to one with version control. A decision I am still very excited about. It allowed me to start innovating my blog again. As part of this, and following the step Lars…

25 years of the Chemistry Development Kit

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/09/28/25-years-of-the-chemistry-development-kit.html

Published: September 28, 2025 00:00

Twenty five years ago the Chemistry Development Kit (CDK) was founded. The Chemistry and Internet (ChemInt2000) had just ended (it ran from 23 to 26 September) and my friend and I had taken the Amtrak night train from Washington to South Bend. At that time…

The eNanoMapper project deliverables

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/24/the-enanomapper-project-deliverables.html

Published: August 24, 2025 00:00

This is a bit of an administrative post and historic, but keep coming back to the question, where are all the deliverable of the (past) project. Now, since many eNanoMapper project deliverables were public, we were able to release most of them on Zenodo.…

AI Technologies in Academia

https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2025/08/18/ai-technologies-in-academia.html

Published: August 18, 2025 00:00

I have had the Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia from June 27 open for some time now. I thought I wanted to sign it, but got stuck on the first paragraphs multiple times: