PhD student working on Metabolite Identification at Leiden University, TNO and the Netherlands Metabolomics Centre.
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In the small field of chemoinformatics, Andreas Bender is a well known scientist. I was lucky of having him as the supervisor of my master thesis, and now as a collaborator in my PhD. Thanks to Andreas, who made my research project utterly exciting, I took the decision of following a PhD. Unfortunately now he [...]
I have finished reading the book Getting Real by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier, the guys from 37signals. This book is just awesome, really, just get it. It proposes ideas to create web apps and how to make them viable. Ideas such as having less features, less code, less employees, and less documentation, but more [...]
Every year there is a Metabolomics Conference organized by the Metabolomics Society, and this year it will be held in Amsterdam. Lots of cool people in the field will be attending and so will I. If anyone is planing to come to the conference and would like to invite me to a beer, please leave [...]
In the Internet world, it seems that if you are not an entrepreneur or you do not develop cool Web 2.0 apps you are a nobody. There are lots of people that make a living from and inside the Internet, maybe freelance designers, web developers, full time bloggers, or even ebook writers. You have the [...]
ZINC is a popular database of purchasable compounds, widely used for screening for new compounds or as a representation of chemical space. I was recently using it for building some models, and since it contains quite some molecules(~20M) I opted for using the clustered datasets ZINC provides. Unfortunately, this clustering only selects molecules below 370Da. [...]
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