Noel O'Blog

Wouldn't it be nice to be able to copy a molecule from a PDF into a molecular drawing package? Well, here are some instructions for doin...

Gerard Kleywegt does not take kindly to dodgy PDB files. I've been aware of his work in a general sense for a while, but after reading P...

Matt Sprague and I have put in a bit of work making OpenBabel accessible on the .NET platform on Windows (see Matt's recent post , for e...

My Cinfony paper has just come out: Cinfony - combining Open Source cheminformatics toolkits behind a common interface NM O'Boyle, GR H...

Imagine one of the following scenarios: you're reading a paper on your computer and want to look up a reference, or someone emails you t...

Did you ever submit a carefully-crafted image to a journal only to find that it looks terrible in the proofs from the publisher? This happen...

The field of Optical Chemical Recognition (OChRe) has been around a while with a number of well-established players (see Antony William'...