Noel O'Blog

Conferences are all about communication. But what can and cannot be communicated at a conference, or rather what should and should not? Pr...

This year's poll question is...if you use Python, which Python do you use? (See the sidebar on the left.) By way of background, Python...

In case you are upset that I ignore your LinkedIn requests, don't follow you back on G+, do not RT your Ts, won't answer your Open B...

Back in February, I was looking for someone to take over Linux4Chemistry. Thanks to those of you who got in touch. I'm happy to annou...

Ever read a science fiction story, or indeed any story, that featured cheminformatics as a major plot point? I've just come across a s...

Let's suppose you want to write a piece of C++ code that manipulates molecules to do something or other, and generates an output, either...

Here's an idea I had towards the end of my last postdoc, but only played around with it a little bit. It relates to the pharmacophore se...