One blog that I have been (occasionally but repeatedly) reading for a long time is the What You're Doing Is Rather Desperate blog by Neil Saunders. HT to WoW!ter for pointing me to this nice post where Saunders shows how to calculate the number of entries in PubMed marked as retracted (in two seperate ways). The spoiler (you should check his R scripts anyway!): about 3900 retractions.

I have been quite interested in this idea of retractions and recent discussions with Chris (Christopher: mostly offline this time, and even some over a beer :) about if retractions are good or bad (BTW, check his inaugural speech on YouTube). He points out that retractions are not always for the right reasons, and, probably worse, have unintended consequences.

eNanoMapper is passed its first year, and an interesting year it has been! I enjoyed the collaboration with all partners very much and also the Open character of it. Just check our GitHub repository or our Jenkins build server.

Just this month, the NanoWiki data on Figshare was released and I just got around to uploading ambit.js to GitHub. This library is something in development, and should too be considered a technical preview.

Google Code is closing down. I had a few projects running there and participated in semanticchemistry which hosts the CHEMINF ontology (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0025513). But also ChemoJava, an extension of the CDK with GPL-licensed bits.

Fortunately, they have an exporter which automates the migration of the project to GitHub. And this is now in progress.
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