Friday, November 16, 2012

Matthew McBride wins Nov 2012 ONS Challenge Award

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Matthew McBride , an undergraduate chemistry major at Drexel University working in the Bradley Laboratory, was awarded the November 2012 Ope...
Wednesday, October 05, 2011

MiniSymposium Bradley Lab 2011

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I recently presented a 15 minute summary of the current research in my lab on September 29, 2011 at the Drexel University Department of Chem...
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Thursday, August 18, 2011

Patrick Ndungu talk at Drexel on Nanotechnology

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One of my former Ph. D. students, Patrick Ndungu (now at University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) will be speaking at Drexel University o...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Google Apps Scripts Workshop at Drexel University

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Andrew Lang will be in Philadelphia next week and we will be running a workshop on Leveraging Google Spreadsheets with Scripts for Research...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

Open Melting Point Collection Book Edition 1

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Several months of work through a collaboration between myself, Andrew Lang , Antony Williams and Evan Curtin have culminated in the public...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

Rapid analysis of melting point trends and models using Google Apps Scripts

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I recently reported on how Google Apps Scripts can be used to facilitate the recording and calculations associated with a chemistry laborat...
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Thursday, July 14, 2011

Practical Tips on using Google Apps Scripts for Chemistry Applications

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A few weeks ago I described our use of Google Apps Scripts , developed by Rich Apodaca and Andrew Lang , as an intuitive interface to infor...
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Friday, July 01, 2011

Open Notebook Science Talk at HUBbub 2011

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On April 6, 2011 I presented at the HUBzero Conference in Indianapolis on " Open Notebook Science: Does Transparency Work? ". Thi...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The 4-benzyltoluene melting point twist

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Evan Curtin and I were in the lab this morning to follow up on our effort to curate the melting point of 4-benzyltoluene . I identified th...
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Saturday, June 18, 2011

Google Apps Scripts for an intuitive interface to organic chemistry Open Notebooks

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Rich Apodaca recently demonstrated how Google Apps Scripts can be added to Google Spreadsheets to enable simple calling of web services fo...
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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Live Tweeting Haumea: the Open Science Ratchet at work?

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Eugenie Samuel Reich just announced on the Nature NewsBlog that astronomer Mike Brown live-tweeted his observations of a transit of dwar...

My talk at SLA on Trust in Science and Open Melting Point Collections

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On June 14 and 15, 2011 I attended the Special Libraries Association conference and made presentations on two panels on the role of trust i...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

More on 4-benzyltoluene and the impact of melting point data curation and transparency

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There are many motivations for performing scientific research. One of these is the desire to advance public scientific knowledge. This is a...
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Friday, June 10, 2011

Open Melting Points on iPhone via MMDS

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As Alex Clark explained on his blog Cheminformatics 2.0 , both predicted and experimental melting points from our Open Data collection are ...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

The quest to determine the melting point of 4-benzyltoluene

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I recently reported that we are attempting to curate the open melting point measurements collected from multiple sources such as Alfa Aesa...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

More Open Melting Points from EPI and other sources: on the path to ultimate curation

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As recently as 2008, Hughes et al published a paper asking: Why Are Some Properties More Difficult To Predict than Others? A Study of QSPR o...
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

La Science par Cahier de Laboratoire Ouvert à l'Acfas

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On May 9, 2011 I presented remotely for the French-Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science ( ACFAS ). This was the first time ...
Sunday, May 08, 2011

Breast Cancer Coalition talk on ONS and Taxol solubility

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On May 1, 2011 I presented " Accelerating Discovery by Sharing: a case for Open Notebook Science " at the National Breast Cancer C...
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