Comments on: The Year Ahead for ChemSpider http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-year-ahead-for-chemspider.html Building Community for Chemists Sat, 08 Jun 2013 05:28:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 By: Markus Sitzmann http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-year-ahead-for-chemspider.html/comment-page-1#comment-195318 Markus Sitzmann Sun, 16 Jan 2011 05:00:05 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=2390#comment-195318 Antony, I am still surprised that you initially embraced Microsoft so much – I am still excited about python/django for web development (“our” Resolver uses it) – and since more and more chemoinformatics software uses Python as high-level language it is really easy to couple.

Interesting Blog post (how to double your efficiency :-) ):

http://kurtgrandis.com/blog/2010/02/24/python-django-vs-c-asp-net-productivity-showdown/

A late Happy New Year
Markus

]]> By: Antony Williams http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-year-ahead-for-chemspider.html/comment-page-1#comment-195312 Antony Williams Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:52:38 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=2390#comment-195312 Egon…Happy New year! We already support Open Data. When people deposit spectral data onto the database they have the opportunity to flag their data as Open so that it can be treated under Open Data licenses. In regards to Open Source we don’t have any intention in the foreseeable future to move away from the Microsoft platform that we have used for core development (.NET and SQL Server) but we will continue to embrace Open Source components such as JMol, JSpecView and OpenBabel and have every intention to contribute back to the Open SOurce community, our first contribution made to JSPecView last year via Bob Lancashire. We are already doing work to enhance the Web Services and have extended the services already for a number of internal projects and will likely expose some of this shortly. We are definitely interested in expanding support for searching of ChemSPider Synthetic Pages and Spectra…what would you like to see in place?

FYI, The Advisory Group will be rebuilt in the next few months as it has been static, and in many ways inactive, so it is time to rebuild and add new people with new ideas and interests in seeing ChemSPider expand in scope, capability etc.

]]> By: Egon Willighagen http://www.chemspider.com/blog/the-year-ahead-for-chemspider.html/comment-page-1#comment-195311 Egon Willighagen Sun, 02 Jan 2011 08:22:31 +0000 http://www.chemspider.com/blog/?p=2390#comment-195311 Antony, you know I have to ask, as member of the Advisory Board. I know that some stuff is brewing, but could you please spend some words on the plans to support Open Standards (or Open Data or Open Source)? For example, will their be changes in the API? For example, to search spectra, CSP, etc?

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