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 [...]
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 [...]
Just received this in an email form the University office. It is dangerous these days to be a scientist.
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, [...]
In November 2011 I will be giving a series of talks in UK, more precisely, 23rd and 24th November in Cambridge and 25th in London. Please contact me if you are in the area and want to come by to one of the meetings, or want to join me for a pint (or more) of [...]
(Photo: Bonolux) Dare to think big, because a paper in Nature makes you work harder than a paper for the neighborhood newspaper. Dare to approach a big name, because you need some godfathers in your network. Dare to say no, because it is your time, your project, your ideas.
(Photo: comic.lot23.com) Knowing how NOT to do something, does not imply that you know how to do it. You can learn either by trial and error or by following the wise advice (imitating) of someone. I have already made use of evolution to explain how cultural knowledge works. If you opt to use somebody’s experience you [...]
Photo by Dottie Mae So Egon Willighagen form Chem-bla-ics raises the following question: What should people do with articles that are clearly wrong, in their opinion? He defends the idea of doing something about it, instead of doing nothing, which is common practice. He gives two options: write the journal with a commentary or letter or [...]
“We have a spray that lasts for 30 minutes.” “Can it last longer?” “Sure, even 1 hour. We kept it to 30 minutes for the sake of reproduction.” Heard in a meeting discussing a MS protocol.
Research in Spain, and specially in Catalonia was improving, mainly due to budget increases, during last decade. But then the crisis came and science, regarded as a luxury and not as a necessity, suffered severe cuts. Oh short sighted politicians! Shame on you! These drastic changes raised alarms even in Nature, where a tough editorial against the measures [...]
As I stated before in a post, I enjoy when people share. So it is time to walk the talk. I listened to Egon and I uploaded the slides of my talk at the ICCS 2011, I hope you enjoy them. Get the pdf here Julio Peironcely @ ICCS 2011 View more presentations from Julio [...]
You can download the pdf here Chemogenomics Approaches for Receptor Deorphanization and Extensions of the Chemogenomics Concept to Phenotypic Space. 2011, Curr. Top. Med. Chem. (in press) Eelke van der Horst, Julio E. Peironcely, Gerard J. P. van Westen, Olaf O. van den Hoven, Warren R. J. D. Galloway, David R. Spring, Joerg K. Wegner, Herman W. [...]
