Comments on: Why Are Chemical Structures Like YouTube Videos?

By: Science in the open » The growth of linked up data in chemistry - and good community projects

Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:31:35 +0000

[...] went on to release two features, one that enables you to embed a molecule, which Jean-Claude has demonstrated over on the ONS Challenge Wiki. Essentially by cutting and [...]

By: Joerg Kurt Wegner

Joerg Kurt Wegner — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:02:49 +0000

One more thing, if there would be some API release allowing people to modify the widget with a pre-, main-, and post-HTML element, then people could adapt and release customized widgets and mashups on ChemSpider.

Just look at iGoogle or Facebook, it is all about customizable widgets

By: Joerg Kurt Wegner

Joerg Kurt Wegner — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:51:30 +0000

Point 1. – Embedding in the image is an option, too, but I was more thinking about HTML microformats which could be found by getting the HTML text. Details embedded in the image alone are not helping, because who could read them and how much effort is this?

Point 2: Interesting, looking forward to hear more

By: Antony Williams

Antony Williams — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 05:10:53 +0000

Joerg,
Point 1 – good comment. Will add it to the list of things to do. Should the InChIKey be buried data in the image file or actually displayed?

Point 2 – it already works that way . We are debugging that aspect at present because when other people pick up a blog post from an original blog post it just proliferates….

By: Joerg Kurt Wegner

Joerg Kurt Wegner — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:46:55 +0000

The idea is nice, two potential extensions could be to

First, add more sematics, e.g. via an valid InChiKey HTML element, e.g. used by the chemical blogspace
http://cb.openmolecules.net/inchis.php

Second, this could be also used to backlink to ChemSpider, e.g. which blogs, documents, etc. link to this chemical structure? The creation button could trigger a tracing element added to a database and to link away from a structure entry. Link-out spam could be a major concern and this will require some careful control mechanism.

By: When molecules go viral : business|bytes|genes|molecules

When molecules go viral : business|bytes|genes|molecules — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 06:15:59 +0000

[...] What happens when a compound goes viral? I am sure you’ve thought about this many times. For the 2 of you not on FriendFeed, I point you to a post by Antony Williams on the Chemspider blog where he announces embeddable chemical structures. [...]

By: Cameron Neylon

Cameron Neylon — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:43:57 +0000

Cool, I’m impressed with the responsiveness of these webservices to requests. And aggregating the links with some additional metadata is a good way of adding value.