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Dear readers, thanks for coming to my site. These are the 10 most viewed posts in my blog during 2011. I started to blog seriously from September 2011 and I am quite happy with the amount of readers I got in 3 months.   How To Identify A Social Media Douchebag Most of those social [...]

I have recently published a paper in PLoS ONE titled Understanding and Classifying Metabolite Space and Metabolite-Likeness. Understanding and Classifying Metabolite Space and Metabolite-Likeness. 2011, PLoS ONE Julio E. Peironcely, Theo Reijmers, Leon Coulier, Andreas Bender and Thomas Hankemeier.     Short Descritption Of The Paper We have studied the chemical space of human metabolites. We have built [...]

We all want to be somebody different. We all look up to someone we would like to imitate. There is so many people, me included, that feel inadequate, not good enough. All what we want is to be better, improve ourselves. No wonder why self-help books abound in the New York Times’ list of Best [...]

Being quite a procrastinator and a time wasting guy is not easy. Many times I feel guilty for wasting my time and my employers money. At least it looks to me I am wasting them. This procrastination guilt kept piling up day after day and the feeling was not a nice one. When the end [...]

These are the slides of my talk “Structure Generation, Metabolite Space, and Metabolite Likeness” at the Unilever Center for Molecular Informatics in November 2011, Cambridge, UK. I presented these slides during my UK road tour in November 2011.   Structure Generation, Metabolite Space, and Metabolite Likeness Background The chemoinformatics tools presented here are developed for [...]

A cook talking about innovation, in general? Can you learn something from a food maker? Well, if it is Ferran Adrià who shares his wisdom you can learn more than in MIT. Nevertheless, Ferran Adrià has revolutionized how topnotch (and not so topnotch) restaurants prepare their food. Adrià is the owner of El Bulli, the famous 3 [...]

From writing papers, to giving presentations, to grad school humor. These are the top 42 books for PhD and graduate students. If you want to survive in graduate school, you must read these books. It is normal to feel lost in the vastness of a PhD project. Graduate school is a though place. You need [...]

Do you want to have an alternative income while working as a scientist? Do you have some spare hours and you want to get extra bucks? Is your graduate scholarship not enough to pay for your lifestyle? Do you find exciting to work in different scientific and consulting projects in your free time? The following [...]

  Finding topics for your posts Sometimes it is hard to come up with topics to write in your blog. If you want to attract readers, these topics should interest them. How can you find these topics? Good old Google can help you. In this post I will show you how I used Google Analytics, [...]

    Just received this in an email form the University office. It is dangerous these days to be a scientist.

Nowadays everybody wants to be a social media expert, a social media manager, a social media marketing guru, a social mediaaarrgghhh!!! Enough, I got sick of so much crap going on in Twitter and other webz. Let me say this with a haiku I wrote in broiku.com You are passionate, social media manager, a fucking [...]

I would like to share with you an example of the motivation letter for PhD jobs I have used in the past. I have sent plenty of motivation statements like this one when I was searching for a PhD project in Europe. It pays off to start from a good cover letter, like this one, [...]