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Monday, September 27, 2010
Visualizing data embedded in XHTML+RDFa
The text field shows the SPARQL used to aggregate the data, which is then visualized in the plot below that field. You can edit the SPARQL and, for example, plot the boiling point (t) as function of the number of carbons (p):
This work nicely shows some interesting McPrinciples: it shows what happens if we allow reuse and share our knowledge; it shows that nice graphics and semantic access to original data are very compatible. All in all, this is an important step forward to semantic publishing of chemical data! Orion, thanx for this really nice work!
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Quo vadis, CDK?
The CDK project by now is so large, it is hardly possible to keep up, and I am very grateful to particularly Chris and Rajarshi for actively keeping the project going, to all those that submit patches and bug reports, and to all that use the CDK in their software. This created a healthy development and user community, as is visible from the blog aggregator Planet CDK.
But, reflecting on the past, it is also clear where the project needs help. The flow of CDK News papers is effectively void, the documentation needs serious updating, we still need way more unit testing, as well as more in-depth validation of algorithm implementations. And we all know we are short on code reviewers to control the flow of patches going into the library. There is also still some functionality missing, like a simple force field (the Jmol LGPL UFF code could be ported, doi:10.1021/ja00051a040) and support for popular file formats like Symyx V3000 molfiles and the ChemDraw CDX formats.
I am really positive about the future of the CDK project and the current future is mostly limited by the number of people working on maintenance, code quality, and releases. For example, I would love more frequent releases, but making a release takes about half a day. It is not merely creating the files to distribute, but also to ensure that the branch is in a releasable state, that it has no important outstanding bugs and at least does not have more unit test fails than the past release (preferably fewer...), and writing a release message.
This maintenance also involves writing unit tests for reported bugs, and ensuring that someone fixes the bug. This is a second important challenge to the project: how to keep the original code authors involved, and make them feel responsible for making bug fixes in the code they wrote. Cheminformatics is very much a field of write once, go off to another job, and forget about it. This is why I am so strong on having unit tests, proper JavaDoc, and clean code, so that others can do this required code maintenance.
If we look at the current numbers, we see about 170 open bugs out of 1115 ever reported, and 24 open patch reports out of 276 reported. Those are acceptable numbers, though they need to go further down.
I really hope that 2011 will be the year that commercial CDK support is picking up, providing value for users by providing dedicated support. Right now, to get something fixed, you need to wait for someone to fix the problem; however, none of the CDK developers actually is working solely on the CDK and many contributions are done in spare time. That nicely shows the power of Open Source, but also well illustrates the need of proper funding. That said, this is merely limited by people actually willing to pay for such support, or even just to donate financial support to the project. If you are interested in that, please contact me offline, as we have the means in place to do this.
In short, I have no clue where the CDK will go, except that it will continue to grow. This is another power of Open Source: the accumulated effort cannot be lost. Seriously, back in 2004 I wrote a What's 2004 going to bring?, and here's a lousy attempt for 2011:
- a new stable series, 2.4 or 3.0 (versioning has not been decided on yet)
- it will be faster and support parallel computing
- we will have a UFF implementation
- more extensive chirality support (EZ, ...)
- rendering and editor will be integrated
- we will use JExample for unit testing
- cheminformatics in the webbrowser (using the CDK)
- we will have books about the CDK
- more molecular descriptors
But we will also have to overcome these issues, for which we need your help:
- CDK News needs a new editorial board
- we need an second release managers (one for stable, one for the development branch)
- we need more code reviewers
- making patches is easier than ever
Using PubChem to create CDK unit tests
import org.openscience.cdk.Molecule; import org.openscience.cdk.io.*; if (args.length == 0 || args[0] == null) { System.out.println("Syntax: pc2ut.groovy [CID]\n"); System.exit(0); } String cid = args[0]; String urlString = "http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/summary/" + "summary.cgi?disopt=SaveXML&cid=" + cid; URL url = new URL(urlString); PCCompoundXMLReader reader = new PCCompoundXMLReader(url.openStream()); Molecule mol = reader.read(new Molecule()); StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(); CDKSourceCodeWriter writer = new CDKSourceCodeWriter(stringWriter); writer.write(mol); writer.close(); System.out.print(stringWriter.toString());
Update An observant reader would have noticed that the output of the current CDKSourceCodeWriter is actually producing code that does not compile. The CDK API has changed, but the created output was not updated accordingly. Apparently, no one is actually using this class, or those who have were not interested in that piece of functionality to file a bug report.
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Presentation at AstraZeneca
Monday, September 20, 2010
Noel's chemical ASCII art
Noel, very nice post!
Friday, September 17, 2010
The CDK 2003 paper is now cited 99 times
The 100th paper, or the first one that is not mine, I will give a
special review in my blog.
A list of things I miss in CiteULike
Agreeing with @citeulike and @abhishektiwari, as a service provider any bad news is good news too: they provide opportunities to improve. So, as encouraged to do so, I reported my long list of things I miss in CiteULike:
- @citeulike ok, one more. wish #18: get readermeter.org to also support citeulike
- @citeulike wish #17: allow people linking between papers in their libs using CiTO to annotate how they cite papers, see http://ur.ly/lBUO
- @citeulike wish #16: I think I saw images from some papers, right? how about doing that for #biomedcentral journals too?
- @citeulike wish #15: at the same http://ur.ly/lIGn page, the tag cloud should reflect tag use with font sizing
- @citeulike wish #14: upon 'post url', the first page with extraced information should allow marking as 'I am author' (cannot find that)
- @citeulike (new) wish #12: clicking an account name should get me to a public portal, rather than just his paper list
- @citeulike good point, wish #13: be more strong on requiring people to tag papers... and use article keywords as default tags
- @citeulike wish #11: remove 'no-tag' from tag clouds
- @citeulike wish #10: support #RDF export with BIBO and/or PRISM
- @citeulike wish #9: use #foaf for the RDFa for account pages, and to mark up friends
- @citeulike wish #8: and more generally, make #citeulike part of the #linkeddata network (provide an #rdf API)
- @citeulike wish #7: start using RDFa, e.g. with the PRISM ontology
- @citeulike wish #6: on an article page (like http://ur.ly/lvWk) summarize the network that bookmarked that article, not just the acc names
- @citeulike wish #5: don't show the 'copy' button for papers that are already in my archive (really a bug)
- @citeulike indeed, but don't or do it right... wish #4: allow people to have that link automatically point to an external blog
- @citeulike wish #3: provide summaries of lists, like article count per journal and article count per year
- @citeulike well, I'll use the blog functoinality to summarize... wish #2: do not try to be a blogging platform
- @citeulike (new) wish #1: put automatically focus on text field after clicking search and select all text for easy deletion
Thursday, September 16, 2010
xournal: free annotator for PDFs
See http://xournal.sourceforge.net/ or go for 'sudo aptitude install xournal'.
Call for Papers: Thematic Series about RDF in Chemistry
However, as it was the goal of the meeting to create an active and collaborating community, we feel it important to open up, and make encourage others too to submit papers to the series that are about the use of Resource Description Framework in chemistry. The exact scope of the series is that of the symposium, of which all abstracts and some slide sets are available here.
Therefore, it is my pleasure to send around this encouragement to submit papers:
As organizers of the ACS RDF 2010 Symposium held at the American Chemical Society meeting in Boston in August 2010 (http://egonw.github.com/acsrdf2010/), we would like to encourage you to submit a paper to a Thematic Series of papers around the use of Resource Description Framework (RDF) in chemistry, in the Journal of Cheminformatics (http://www.jcheminf.com/). Six speakers have already agreed to participate.
Journal of Cheminformatics was launched in March 2009 as a fully Open Access cheminformatics journal. Papers published in this journal benefit the cheminformatics community through the free, widespread and unrestricted readership that Open Access offers. As organizers of the ACS RDF 2010 symposium, we believe that it is important to share research in this area within the cheminformatics community as much as possible. The journal is peer reviewed, has unrestricted article length, and unlimited use of color illustrations, supplementary files, etc., making it an excellent platform to both give an overview of scientific progress, but being able to go into detail at the same time. Authors retain complete copyright to their published paper.
An example Thematic Series is available at: http://www.biomedcentral.com/series/ENSEMBL2010.
We would be pleased to explore this opportunity further with you, so if you have any comments or questions e.g. about the scope of the thematic issue, article type, or otherwise, please don't hesitate to get in touch.Submission Deadline: 28 November 2010 Submission Info (process, fees, policies): http://www.jcheminf.com/info/instructions/ Looking forward to hearing from you, with kind regards, Egon Willighagen Martin Braendle
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
CDK 1.3.6: the changes, authors, and reviewers
The authors
I am mildly impressed by this release's list of authors... it is certainly not the usual suspects anymore, and I would like to thank all contributors very much. Interestingly, we also see the number of places where contributions increase, and see patches from 7 different institutes (6 if you count the current ones)!
87 Egon Willighagen 42 Gilleain Torrance 17 Syed Asad Rahman 9 Rajarshi Guha 3 Jules Kerssemakers 4 Mark Rijnbeek 2 Andreas Truszkowski 2 Saravanaraj 1 Jonathan Alversson
The reviewers
The below list has also slight gained size, and I welcome Gilliean and Syed as active reviewers.
56 Rajarshi Guha 18 Egon Willighagen 12 Syed Asad Rahman 4 Gilleain Torrance
The changes
The changes include bug fixes (see also the 1.2.6 and 1.2.7 release notes), but also an updated SMSD engine, a rename of the IAtomType method getHydrogenCount() into getImplicitHydrogenCount() and of MDLWriter into MDLV2000Writer, and the addition of the signature code by Gilleain, and many, many small fixes.
- Compare values not objects (fixes #3061263) 1e4adac
- Unit test to reproduce failing atom type perception with one of the options to create a -1 Integer object 87f8bfe
- Smiles parser setting to preserve aromaticity as provided in the Smiles String itself. ae21ee2
- Added two further unit tests: one to see if the descriptor properly 'ignores' hydrogens; a second to reproduce the numbers in the original Wiener paper from 1947 91c58dd
- Renabled test which was (accidentally?) outcommented when switching to JUnit4 in commit 06a1a3dd ac82b12
- Added a reference to the original Wiener paper 0c5187e
- No need to declare throws for other Exception's if the superclass is already declared thrown itself (also, no need to define java.lang explicitly) e73a291
- Minor cleanup: corrected copyright statement; simplified JavaDoc by removing empty parameter table 6292875
- Replaced inline citation by reference to the main bibliography 8ddbb1b
- Implementation of a descriptor to measure molecular complexity in terms of sp3 to sp2 ratio of carbon atoms 6a6db0b
- Updated javadocs and added extra unit test ac211ce
- Implementation of a descriptor to measure molecular complexity in terms of sp3 to sp2 ratio of carbon atoms bd9fb4f
- Removed output to STDOUT 18f7d52
- Fix for branching bracket issue when generating SMILES for BrC1C(Br)C(Br)C(Br)C(Br)C1Br 526362e
- Unit test for bug #3040273. 3bf8397
- Fixed hybridization information: these are sp3 hybridized systems e8cec0f
- More missing elements for SMILES parsing problems reported in bug #3048501 bcb8432
- Unit tests for SMILES parsing bugs reported in #3048501 bb5ffe1
- Upper case the first character to also properly recognize lower cased 'aromatic' two-character element symbols (fixes SMILES parsign of things like c1[se]ccccc1 3f6056b
- JavaDoc fixes: correct @cdk.cite use, and small typo d097acf
- Updated the JavaDoc for an API changed a while ago: the getInChIToStructure() method now takes an IChemObjectBuilder as second argument (fixes #3035890) 3e1aba0
- Updated the JavaDoc for the atoms() Iterable API change (fixes #3034824) 2a5bb6b
- Added the maven build file (closes #3042475) 6209a48
- a)removed blank/unused methods and fixed imports Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- a)IMatch to Match and constructor call for state used TargetProperties for faster processing Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- a)Assert cleaned and fixed b)Correct ASSERT imports used a420b61
- Removed unused code cb4048e
- Updated checking of indices which now are -1 if unset, instead of null cd8ccee
- a) Default constructor supported as per changes in the CDK b) VFMCS index error should point to -1 not null Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- a)Refactored matchers, atom matcher and bond matcher b)getTanimoto score fixed for single atoms 1dae4f2
- Updates for the getImplicitHydrogenCount() renaming 0f64e4d
- The smsd module now depends on the signature module 7d5fc9d
- Latest SMSD code 1.2.0: Major changes are: 7217e82
- Use the factory to not depend on an implementation e2c8329
- Renamed get/setHydrogenCount() to get/setImplicitHydrogenCount(), per report #3020065 8ec9ad4
- Introduced a helper class with info about the CDK library: the version number, which is read from the build.props which is now included in the cdk-core.jar 5a2bc65
- Also take into account super classes 0de5777
- Renamed MDLWriter into MDLV2000Writer (implements #3029447) f0256d0
- Assert pattern has the expected value as first argument d4045cc
- Use the builder pattern to instantiate an IIsotope 6760330
- MDLV2000 reader interprets D and T without M ISO line mandatory f6fd82b
- Use the PT class to see if something can be an element and removing the redundant element symbol info 937c4c7
- Fixed annotation with TestMethod, not TestClass (fixes #3016632) 9eb04e5
- Skip inner classes for @cdk.module and @cdk.githash JavaDoc tests (fixes #3043084) d070396
- Throw a CDKException when a QUADRUPLE bond order is in the input, which is not supported by the MDL/Symyx molfile format (fixes #3029352) 32cdc48
- Deal with a special situation: pyridine N-oxide in the non-charge-separated representation, with a N.sp2.3 nitrogen, with two double bonds. Previously, any ring-outward double bond would disqualify the ring as aromatic. This compound is now an exception. c66039d
- Assert the compound is aromatic (fixes false negative) d1da527
- Exporting the signatures jar 7959947
- Removed the OpenJavaDocCheck Jazzy extension which was not supposed to go in; it's not ready for prime time 9364179
- Added missing dependencies (fixes failing unit tests) e582852
- Added missing dependencies (fixes failing unit tests) ef14ef0
- Added missing dependency a0f22f6
- Copy the 2D templates into the source distribution 5bcd111
- Added finally blocks to MolHandler to close its input streams, with proper logging calls if it fails Fixes bug #3032568 1201e01
- UIT timeout fix 5a329d4
- Cleaned up exception handling in TemplateHandler.loadTemplates() to be more specific and less pessimistic. e1df763
- QSAR descriptor values made serializeable 2ef459c
- Fixed assertion to compare two Vector3d's c133da5
- Added test to assert that two Vector3d's are identical 6651956
- All methods now tested 004770a
- Hooking up test machinery 32155b0
- Altered the getTetrahedralDescription to be get stereo and return ITetrahedralChirality.Stereo f61266c
- Moved Stereotool to stereo package a99c918
- Convenience method that returns chirality descriptor (R/S) given four atoms in priority order 7abbdcc
- Missing docs 9a55100
- Copyright statements d96f596
- Just to be paranoid, test +/- tetrahedra above and below the XY plane e32f334
- Tests for square planar shapes, trig bipyr, and oct 8b49490
- Cleanup and fixing (I think) of the trigonal bipyramidal method 1b01c84
- Test for 3 colinear points 01ae3fc
- Better docs bb38d10
- Tests for tetrahedral sign, some basic defined vectors 897b6ee
- Test class, and name change of distanceToPlane to show that it returns signed (+/-) distance 1735551
- Initial go at the StereoTool - functions taken from Jmol's smiles package for 3D stereo checking c25591f
- Updated OB note and robustified unit tests 2b96512
- Added support for multi-molecule mol2 files. Updated source and added unit test and test file dbd6df4
- Updated cdk-1.2.x patches for master API e383f4b
- Updated the DebugBond unit test too now: new DebugBond() has zero atoms 6ef1fb1
- Backport patch, to make the patches compile with cdk-1.2.x ce9b1bd
- Additional patch to reduce atom count on setAtom(null, int) and unit tests for the setAtom(IAtom, int) behavior. 6cf95db
- Also fix the new NNBond() == 0 atoms for the nonotify module 23d9685
- Fixed Bond() constructor to create a bond with zero atoms. Also fixed setAtom(IAtom, int) to increase the atom count if a null entry is filled with a non-null IAtom. 916ab96
- Updated test to assume new Bond() creates a bond with zero atoms 4ac7111
- Added two unit tests for aromatic N-oxides that are the basis for failures in SMARTS matching 12fb96b
- added javadoc to IChemObjectReader explaining the split between ISimple and IIterating ChemObjectReaders 1574e42
- Exceptions when clone atomless ISingleElectron and ILonePair too c5d4cd3
- Unit test for ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException occuring when trying to clone an IAtomContainer with an IBond with no IAtoms d71c31c
- Added unit tests for SMILES with failing atom typing, from email on the cdk-devel mailing list June 11 2010 890d0f5
- Added the N.oxide atom type, for structures like (CH3)N=O bb431e3
- Fixed reading of SD properties: keep the first line too 3133a18
- Added missing dependency 14003dc
- Fixed unit test: surely there is no atom with symbol 0... how long has this been failing?? c888e4f
- Updated fingerprinter javadoc e6fecf2
- Added a test class to aromaticity of three compounds: the last incorrectly fails a454ab8
- Also except N.amide as part of an aromatic ring 3357113
- Added a test class to repeat atom type perception and test consistency 0bd5b42
- Unit test fix: the molecules *is* aromatic, as we should assume it is. Fixes a big goof up cd83236
- Replace special chars where spaces are supposed to occur, fixing the fail of the unit tests every now and then 483c856
- Merge branch 'master' of ssh://cdk.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/cdk/cdk eb6defd
- BooleanIOSetting to let MDLWriter output bond type 4 (aromatic) a586d6a
- Reorderd imports 2896226
- Added test cases to check that the code runs when faced with covalently bonded metals. Currenly on failure is due to the presence of Pt, for which we do not have a valency in AtomValence f32e9a2
- chemfilter improvised Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- SMSD Test cases updated as per new code Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- SMSD Test cases updated as per new code Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- added ExtAtomContainerManipulator Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- deleted ext Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- updated SMSD code Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- updated SMSD code Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- Convenience constructors for AtomSignature that take IAtoms rather than atom indices 935b5f6
- Added missing jar meta file for the Signatures library 805103a
- Updated to reflect the upstream jar name d33a71a
- Abstract methods not part of API are now protected, to discourage thier use 7a92d42
- Various fixes to tests 592b920
- Added the missing assert: runCoverageTest() returns a boolean stating the success 850fd1a
- cdk.cite references for two Faulon papers e7ccc4e
- More missing javadocs - notably the class documentation for AtomSignature and MoleculeSignature 8bd664f
- Mising constructor javadoc, and inheritdoc annotation on AtomSignature 88ffdd6
- Final missing test cf148dd
- Atom signature test methods 888bf60
- Molecule signature tests b64c4e5
- Signature quotient graph test method 0d0a95e
- Missing test for Orbit::iterator 2609f1b
- Removed unused import 020fb92
- Molecule From Signature Builder tests 9d2a0c0
- All orbit methods tested 7c46a7c
- Finally correct junit annotations, and sort test fba5ff5
- BeforeClass method must be static; better clone test 7e370a2
- Fixes some problems flagged by PMD cd3a866
- Use junit's BeforeClass instead of Before annotation 2566b87
- Added missing githash tags, to add links in the JavaDoc to the source code repository fc0a9f9
- Inherit JavaDoc where methods overwrite a super method d4a9436
- Fixed PMD warnings: more descriptive field names; use of Integer.valueOf() 02020d6
- Added test method annotation for the clone() method cabd95f
- Removed some unnecessary imports 19b21a3
- Test orbit cloning 3c85ab2
- Improved canonical label method in graph signature 0bca11f
- Integer invariants, and updated signatures jarfile 5c838b6
- Added JavaDoc HTML generation for the signature module 7617074
- Hooked in PMD testing for the signature module 7384bc3
- Defined dependencies for the test module 132badc
- Hooked the signature module into the CDK build system 4ea7d48
- Removed the dependency on the nonotify module 93e0a22
- Created a CDK style module test suite a9a4aa8
- MoleculeFromSignatureBuilder tests d7bb6f6
- Extend from CDKTestCase and use the slow running test check 6969629
- Fixed and cleaned up molecule signature tests 3998ed7
- Initial commit of signature package ff2bdeb
- Added OpenJavaDocCheck 0.5 - the Jazzy spell checking extension 57e7eea
- specify fail behavior (returns null) in javadoc bfd06db
- Added PMD tests for detecting misuse of TestClass and TestMethod, e.g. TestClass on a method. (fixes #3014808) c94ebcf
- Removed two lines added in master to the removed doccheck target 9d679fe
- Merge branch 'cdk-1.2.x' 055f702
- Improved javadoc generation using a link tag, so that references to java library classes are resolved properly 1f8bb2d
- Update OpenJavaDocCheck to 0.5: fixing a few false positives f0c7d0c
- Removed use of the proprietary DocCheck utility 1523f66
- OpenJavaDocCheck errors are fixed for SMSD related modules Signed-off-by: Syed Asad Rahman
- solved cdk-Bugs-3006773 : small JavaDoc errors in the smsd module f66a779
- Fix for character spacing for "APO" line in RGFile output ed510bf
- Branch open for commits for the future 1.3.6 1ab64ff
- Use the new tests in more situations e8b13b2
Sunday, September 12, 2010
CDK 1.2.7: the changes, the authors, and the reviewers
The changes
- Compare values not objects (fixes #3061263) 324f7f5
- Unit test to reproduce failing atom type perception with one of the options to create a -1 Integer object 9c1b95a
- Removed output to STDOUT 223fc9a
- Fix for branching bracket issue when generating SMILES for BrC1C(Br)C(Br)C(Br)C(Br)C1Br b9b2272
- Unit test for bug #3040273. 6d9b3d2
- Fixed hybridization information: these are sp3 hybridized systems a01de91
- More missing elements for SMILES parsing problems reported in bug #3048501 31f7462
- Unit tests for SMILES parsing bugs reported in #3048501 bf8defd
- A few more missing elements in the SMILES two-character element symbol parsing 5cf9334
- Added missing elements, fixing several problems reported in bug #3048501 6ab74bc
- Upper case the first character to also properly recognize lower cased 'aromatic' two-character element symbols (fixes SMILES parsign of things like c1[se]ccccc1 3ec1480
- JavaDoc fixes: correct @cdk.cite use, and small typo 394f9ed
- Updated the JavaDoc for an API changed a while ago: the getInChIToStructure() method now takes an IChemObjectBuilder as second argument (fixes #3035890) be56aac
- Updated the JavaDoc for the atoms() Iterable API change (fixes #3034824) 38873dc
The authors
The below numbers are based on the number of commits, but keep in mind that some developers, like myself, need more commits for the same number of changed lines.
13 Egon Willighagen 2 SaravanarajThe reviewers
The below list is based on who signed off the patches. Anyone who reviews patches in the patch tracker can basically do this. Ask on cdk-devel on how to do this.
8 Rajarshi Guha 4 Gilleain Torrance 2 Egon Willighagen
Friday, September 10, 2010
Pulling out data as JSON from XHTML+RDFa
Now, Peter is creating this nice data set about green solvents from patents, and it would be great of that data ends up online as RDFa, so that we can easily visualize the trends in solvent use over the years. But as I do not have this data as XHTML+RDFa yet, you will have to do with another example: boiling points.
So, let's consider the data on this page, relating paraffin molecules to boiling points, and we'll take a complexity descriptor (w0, Wiener descriptor) and the boilingpoint (t0). so we get this SPARQL query:
PREFIX cc: <http://github.com/egonw/cheminformatics.classics/1/#> SELECT * { ?mol cc:w0 ?w ; cc:p0 ?p . }Now, we want to run this query on the aforementioned page, so we add a FROM clause:
PREFIX cc: <http://github.com/egonw/cheminformatics.classics/1/#> SELECT * FROM <http://www.w3.org/2007/08/pyRdfa/extract?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fegonw.github.com%2Fcheminformatics.classics%2Fclassic1.html&format=pretty-xml&warnings=false&parser=lax&space-preserve=true> { ?mol cc:w0 ?w ; cc:p0 ?p . }Notice the use of the distiller here. This way, with a service like that on sparql.org, we can get JSON returned. The result is a bit verbose, but that can perhaps be tuned:
{ "head": { "vars": [ "w" , "p" ] } , "results": { "bindings": [ { "w": { "datatype": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer" , "type": "typed-literal" , "value": "56" } , "p": { "datatype": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer" , "type": "typed-literal" , "value": "4" } } , { "w": { "datatype": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer" , "type": "typed-literal" , "value": "35" } , "p": { "datatype": "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#integer" , "type": "typed-literal" , "value": "3" } } ] } }The point is, I am sure at least one of my readers knows how to visualize the data in this JSON with, for example, Google Chart, particularly, because all the mashing up is embedded in the just linked-to, though obscure, URL. And, if it helps, you can otherwise use the CSV or TSV output. The output of that is even more simple (CSV):
w,p 56,4 286,9 35,3 220,8 20,2 84,5 10,1 165,7 120,6The first one who can use one of the above URLs to extract the data from that XHTML+RDFa page to create a scatter plot in a HTML page with some JavaScript library, wins a free mention in my blog! ;)
Wednesday, September 08, 2010
Second #acs_boston talk: teaching scientific communication
Sunday, September 05, 2010
Handbook of Chemoinformatics Algorithms
The full list of chapters is: Representing 2D Chemical Structures with Molecular Graphs, Algorithms to Store and Retrieve 2D Chemical Structures, 3D Molecular Representations, Molecular Descriptors, Ligand- and Structure-Based Virtual Screening, Predictive Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships Modeling: Data Preparation and the General Modeling Workflow, Predictive Quantitative Structure–Activity Relationships Modeling: Development and Validation of QSAR Models, Structure Enumeration and Sampling, Computer-Aided Molecular Design: Inverse Design, Computer-Aided Molecular Design: De Novo Design, Reaction Network Generation, Open Source Chemoinformatics Software and Database Technologies, Sequence Alignment Algorithms: Applications to Glycans, Trees, and Tree-Like Structures, Machine Learning-Based Bioinformatics Algorithms: Application to Chemicals, Using Systems Biology Techniques to Determine Metabolic Fluxes and Metabolite Pool Sizes.
This makes it a quite interesting read, I think. Let's hope the publisher gets me my copy soon.
Saturday, September 04, 2010
Data duplication at Mendeley
Since then, Mendeley has undergone a transformation, and there is talk about OpenSourcing the client (or not), Open Data, and an Open Standard API. But, importantly, I no longer need the client and can do everything in the browser.
Moreover, Mendeley has momentum and is starting to provide interesting apps around the API, such as readermeter.org. And since being a scientist is playing the publishing game, one just must add once papers to these systems, just advertise them:
This brings us to problem #1: author identity, which is a general problem and addressed by projects like ORCID. So, besides the page shown above, I have a second page under an entry with just my first name.
But, as the title of the post suggests, Mendeley suffers from a second problem, which was recently brought up by Duncan in his How many unique papers are there in Mendeley? post. Mendeley, apparently, claims 36M papers, but the number of unique papers is much smaller, as detailedly outline by Duncan. Mr. Gunn replied that [d]uplicates are understandably enriched among the popular papers, such as yours, and it's harder to go from 6 duplicates to 1 canonical document than from 2 to one, because the variability is higher (see this comment), but I do not buy that.
I replied in the blog about that claim and also made a suggestion: this dereplication should really be a crowd-sourcing event, but I found it impossible to find a place to report duplication, so I had to use a message to support form and a uninformative category Other. If I was working in Mendeley, I would make this reporting a key technology behind their dereplication efforts.
Anyway, the duplication goes deep, very deep into the long tail. And really, my papers are fairly well received in general (many of my papers in BMC journals are 'Highly Accessed'; I did request some distinction there, using the StackOverflow gold, silver, bronze system), but incomparable with the highly bookmarked papers in Mendeley. I know this is probably not something Mendeley likes to hear, but the paper duplication goes deep, very deep too: a majority of my papers show duplicates. A semi-exhaustive scan showed me duplication for the XMPP paper (here and here), the Blue Obelisk paper (here, here, and here; yes, three copies), the CDK-Taverna paper (here and here), the Bioclipse 2 paper (here and here), the userscripts paper (here and here), the CDK I paper (here and here), and the CDK II paper (here and here).
Hopefully, by the time you read this post, at least some above the above links no longer work. In that respect, I would also like to request URIs based on the DOI instead.
BioMed Central is going to support Open Data
The decision to mandate data deposition as a condition of publication is another decision best made by the scientific community concerned rather than a single journal or publisher as, for example, has been established in the microarray and evolutionary biology communities [19]. We will, therefore, support data publication when it is mandated, but will also enable, encourage and recognize [20] data sharing and publication on a voluntary basis for scientists wishing to show leadership in their field.Now, as the journal already allows reuse of papers (CC-BY license), this also applies to data (and in at least several countries data cannot be copyrighted at all, but we need a world-wide solution; it's the 21st century). However, earlier this year the Panton Principles were introduced which formalize the idea behind public domain waiving, and suggest the CC0 waiver as one valid approach. This is where BioMed Central wants to go too; they write:
All research articles published in BioMed Central journals are published under the Creative Commons attribution licence [22] (CC-BY), with which authors retain the copyright to their work. This licence allows unrestricted distribution and re-use provided that the original article is cited. We support the Panton Principles for open data in science [23] and open data should therefore mean that it is freely available on the public internet permitting any user to download, copy, analyse, re-process, pass them to software or use them for any other purpose without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. We encourage the use of fully open file formats wherever possible.The above quoted text are extracted from the draft, and your comments are most welcome. You can leave them as comment here, which I strongly encourage you to do. If even just to support the idea (see McPrinciple3).
Therefore, to eliminate potential legal impediments to integration and re-use of data, specifically, and to help enable long-term interoperability of data we believe an appropriate licence or waiver specific to data should be applied, and made explicit by the authors and publishers. There are a number of conformant licences [25] for open data, of which Creative Commons CC0 [26] is widely recognised. Under CC0, authors waive all of his or her rights to the work worldwide under copyright law and all related or neighboring legal rights he or she had in the work, to the extent allowable by law.
The draft also touches the issue of Open Standards, but I feel this problem with resolve itself. More interestingly, it is now time for the journal editors to make a move, and let the community know if they will require these open data waivers for there journal. For example, cheminformatics as field would benefit very much if the Journal of Cheminformatics would make this move. But at the same time, I fully understand that a young journal may not yet be in the position to do just that yet.


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Brian Wilson is arguably the most creatively influential musical mind of our time. With the Beach Boys, he crafted soaring harmonies and immaculate arrangements. And on bizarro opus Smile -- which it's been said he dubbed as "a teenage symphony to God" -- Wilson turned pop-music sounds upside down and even made vegetables fun.
In recent years, his well-publicized struggles with substance abuse and his mental health have taken a back seat to news of his revival. Wilson appears to be in full creative mode. There was last year's reunion tour with the original Beach Boys, and there's an upcoming album and current tour, featuring appearances from bandmate Al Jardine and ace guitarist Jeff Beck.
The prospect of actually interviewing Wilson would make anyone's hands damp and voice shaky. He may be brilliant, but he's also known for unusual behavior. During our conversation with the musician, we faced some perfunctory answers and a few awkward moments but still enjoyed every minute of it.
See also: Beach Boys' Al Jardine on Touring With Brian Wilson: "We're Not Done Yet"
New Times: Let's start out by talking about your new album. How far along are you at this point?
Brian Wilson: We're about three quarters of the way through. We still have a little more to do.
Are you producing the album?
I'm producing with my friend Joe, Joe Thomas.
As one of the greatest producers of all time, what's it like working with someone else?
We bounce ideas off each other. It's really fun. It's interesting how it works. We bounce ideas off each other. It's a good chemistry.
So the songs that you're including in this album, are they songs that you wrote recently or songs that have been around awhile?
The songs have been around for quite awhile, yeah.
Will you be performing any of the songs in the upcoming tour?
Probably so, maybe one or two of them, yeah.
You have such an amazingly huge catalog to choose from. How do you decide which songs to include in your live set?
Well, we haven't gotten to that point yet, but I'm sure we'll think of something.
No doubt you will. Do you plan to offer some songs that audiences haven't heard from you before?
Yeah, you will be hearing some of those. Yeah.
How did you happen to hook up with Jeff Beck for this tour?
Back a couple of years ago, he played and sang "Surf's Up" at MusiCares. Do you know Musicares?
Yes, I've heard of it. It's a major music fundraiser.
Yeah, and so I called him a few months ago and asked him to play on my album.
So how did that work out?
Wonderful. He's a really great guitar player.
The combination seems like it should be really dynamic.
It's going to be. It really is.
Is it ever intimidating when you go to write a new piece of music, thinking that you've already set such a high bar? Is there pressure to compete with yourself?
No, actually not. How could you think that?
Because of that high bar you've set. Your reputation for genius.
Well, yeah. I'm always anxious to make each one better, ya know? We want to make each cut as well-done as we can get it.
Do you write with the idea that it will have that patented sound?
I hear the harmonies when I write. Usually I try to create good harmonies to match the song, to go with it.
The song comes first, and then you try to envision how the harmonies will fit in?
Yeah, then the harmonies come in. Yeah.
Your competition with the Beatles in the '60s was the stuff of legend.
Are you still in touch with Paul McCartney. Do you still communicate and comment on one another's work?
No, actually we haven't gotten to that point yet. We're just casual friends. We're not really close. We haven't gotten to the point where we talk to each other about that, ya know?
How do you enjoy touring these days? Again, back in the old days, you didn't really seem to enjoy it very much...
It's a pleasure to play for people. Hopefully they enjoy our music, and it's my pleasure to do these concerts for people.
It must be very gratifying to see a younger generation getting into your songs. Last year, when you played Bonnaroo, the crowds went crazy for you guys.
Oh, yeah, definitely. Didn't you sense that reaction from the stage?
Yeah, I did.
So it must be very gratifying.
The young generation is just now becoming aware of the Beach Boys' music. It's good to have youngsters, young people, in the audience, ya know?
Of all the artists you've influenced over the years, are there those that you're particularly fond of?
You know, I follow Paul McCartney and I follow the older generation music, the '60s-generation music. I listen to a lot of '60s-generation music during the day and at night.
Like who, for instance? Please give us some examples.
Paul McCartney, Phil Spector, the Rolling Stones, the Doors. Yeah.
Are there any newer bands that you enjoy, any you feel you may have influenced?
No, I wouldn't know that. No. I don't know who's influenced by us at all. I don't know.
Everybody's been influenced by you. Along with the Beatles, the Beach Boys are among the most influential band of all time.
Well, yeah, actually me and the Beach Boys are very proud of ourselves, ya know? Al Jardine, great singer. We're all very proud.
How did you decide which Beach Boys would sing which particular songs, especially when you had so many good singers in the group?
OK, here's how it goes. I write the song, and then after I write the song, then I decide who I will have sing it. I don't think about who's going to sing it while I write the song. Thank you very much for the interview.
Thank you!
OK, take care, bud.
Brian WIlson and Jeff Beck, with Al Jardine and David Marks. 7:30 p.m. Friday, September 27, at Hard Rock Live at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino, 1 Seminole Way, Hollywood. TIckets cost $59.25 to $96.60. Call 954-797-5531, or visit hardrocklivehollywoodfl.com.
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Maine man's stroll with assault weapon sparks ire
PORTLAND, Maine — A man who strolled through Maine's largest city with an assault weapon similar to the one used in the Connecticut elementary school shootings is drawing fire from both gun control and gun rights advocates.
Portland police received more than 65 calls Monday reporting that a young man was walking through the Parkside neighborhood and the Back Cove area with an AR-15-style assault weapon. Justin Dean, 24, insisted he wasn't making any sort of statement but rather had the loaded rifle for protection while exercising his Second Amendment rights.
Dean broke no laws, but advocates on both sides of the gun-control debate said he could have picked a better way to exert his rights than by carrying a weapon in a densely populated neighborhood and on a popular walking path.
"From what I've seen, it seems like he has benign intentions but a tone-deaf ear on an effective way to promote Second Amendment rights," said Robert Henricksen of the Maine Open-Carry Association, a gun-rights group. "I think there are ways to achieve self-defense and Second Amendment rights — even though he says that isn't one of his goals — without (carrying around) an AR-15, especially in light of what happened in Connecticut recently."
Dean said he never intended to scare anybody and is surprised by the outcry. He said he's an Army veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, but until Monday had never carried his Daniel Defense M-4 rifle with its 30-round clip around in public.
"I think the Second Amendment is an important right, but I'm not an activist, I'm not a member of the NRA or any group," he said, referring to the National Rifle Association. "In no way was I trying to make a statement."
Police said they began receiving calls at 11 a.m. Monday about a man carrying an AR-15-style weapon while walking down the street.
When police caught up to Dean on a street near his apartment, they determined he wasn't breaking any laws and let him continue on his way. Dean said he then spent the next few hours walking to a post office to mail a letter in an outside mailbox and walking around the 3.5-mile Back Cove walking trail.
Along the way, a couple of people stopped him to talk about the weapon, with one person asking if it was real and if it was legal to carry open firearms, he said. But others stared at him or went out of their way to keep their distance.
Tom Franklin, president of Maine Citizens Against Handgun Violence, called Dean an "embarrassment" to gun owners and to Maine.
"We aren't gun kooks," Franklin said. "By and large we're very responsible gun owners. But this sort of publicity is bad for gun owners. It's bad for the state of Maine."
Dean's stroll underscores the need for municipalities to have the authority to pass their own local gun control laws, said Portland City Councilor Ed Suslovic, who's hoping to introduce a proposal to the state Legislature in the upcoming session that would allow just that. State law forbids towns and cities from passing local gun control ordinances.
State and federal laws prohibit guns in places such as state buildings, federal buildings and bars, and municipalities should have the same authority to enact ordinances that prohibit weapons in public buildings and at public gatherings, Suslovic said. Gun rights supporters have been known to show up at City Hall with guns at their sides to attend City Council committee meetings when gun control is discussed.
"To my knowledge, the gentleman walking around with the AR-15 assault weapon could have legally walked into Portland City Hall. When you put it into those terms, most people are shocked to learn that's legal," Suslovic said. "And they're even more shocked to discover the city of Portland or any other city can't do anything about it. We are powerless to enact local ordinances limiting the possession or display of firearms."
But allowing each town and city to have its own gun laws would create a mess and make it virtually impossible for gun owners to track, said Jeff Weinstein of the Maine Gun Owners Association Inc. It would be like each town having different traffic laws, he said.
"Politically, frankly it's virtually impossible," Weinstein said. "Gun rights in Maine are jealously guarded by gun owners, and I can assure there will be a massive turnout if such legislation is introduced."


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Adobe released a new Flash Player that provides high-definition content while barely touching the CPU.
Wednesday Adobe announced the release of Flash Player 10.2 for Windows, Mac and Linux. The new edition includes Stage Video, a full hardware accelerated video-pipeline for bringing high-quality video across all browsers and platforms. The new release also brings to the table custom native mouse cursors, multiple monitor full-screen support, Internet Explorer 9 hardware accelerated rendering support, and enhanced sub-pixel rendering for superior text readability.
"Flash Player using Stage Video can effortlessly play beautiful 1080p HD video with just 1 to 15-percent CPU usage on a common Mac or Windows computer," said Adobe's Tom Nguyen in his blog Wednesday. "Working across platforms and browsers, it will enable the best video experience for the most people. Many millions of additional PCs, from netbooks to desktops, can now become slick HD home theaters on the web."
Nguyen added that Web surfers won't see the improvement immediately, as websites and content providers will first need to update their video players. Developers will also need to update their SWF player files to support the new feature, but changes to existing video libraries and infrastructures won't be necessary. Vimeo, Brightcove and YouTube have already started the process of enabling support for Stage Video, he said.


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Rickrolling Is The Plague That's Killing The Internet
The Rickroll prank (you know, you show a link pretending it's something else but it's really the music video for Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up") is just "made you look!" for the web. Worse: It's "sure thing...not!" for the web. That's why it caught on so damn well, because every idiot can enjoy a good laugh ("ha ha fooled you that was not the web page you intended to see"). Here's how it began (as a kind of funny joke), how it took over, and why using it makes you a moron who should be strapped down in front of a loop of "2 Girls 1 Cup."
Rickrolling began last year in 4chan's video game forum. (The 4chan forum site is the sewer of the Internet, but the worst griefing and fighting happens in its /b/ forum. The other forums stay somewhat on topic but are still perverse and often baffling.) Anyway according to the Encyclopedia Dramatica, when Grand Theft Auto IV's official web site launched, everyone rushed to see it and the site got overloaded. Back on 4chan, some people pointed to exclusive videos of the upcoming game, and the frustrated GTA fans clicked the links. Instead of game footage, they got Rickrolled.
The fad caught on, then spread to other popular forums like Fark and Slashdot, which share some users with 4chan. From there it went to the 250, the bloggers and nerds who think they are the center of the Internet — these people. Those people spread it to the web at large and now it's a trend story in the Guardian.
Before (or maybe slightly after) the Rickroll came the duckroll, which was the same thing with a picture of a duck on wheels instead of "Never Gonna Give You Up." The absurdity was funnier, but still rather pointless. It still wasn't impressive to, gasp, send someone to a web page they did not expect.
A more heinous variety of Rickroll is a trick that resizes and animates the victim's window and pops up messages, making it very hard to close the window without hearing the whole song. Jesus, never do this. How is it funny? You're just making someone click things, listen to banal noise, and resize their windows. You're replicating the banner ad experience from 2003.
The problem with Rickrolls is the lack of sufficient setup. When you link to something, you set up a tiny expectation in me. That doesn't make for much of a fall when I see the punchline. So the few redeemable Rickrolls must come at the end of a long setup in which a link is discussed at length before it's given. Even real-world Rickrolls are disappointing because they ride on the cultural capital of the web's worst joke.
I was goatseing long before Rickroll. Goatse, the image of a man stretching his own ass open (described at length on Wikipedia), triggers an actual moment of horror (though it's funnier if a first-time victim isn't really bothered). There are other shock sites like meatspin, which humiliates the viewer for watching. A Rickroll is like poking someone in the chest; Goatse is sucker-punching them. Still obviously for teens, college students, and the sort of guy who likes ads by Crispin Porter + Bogusky.
But lately I've switched to "happyrolls," my stupid word for surprising people with good things. "Ha, you thought I was linking you to a spreadsheet, but it's a really cute cartoon about history!" I know, this is so "pay it forward" or whatever, but it's not Rick Astley.


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Chris Harrison blogs 'The Bachelor' episode 9
It's been a long road, and the end is in sight for Brad and three lucky ladies. After an incredible week of hometowns and a very emotional rose ceremony, Brad told the women about our next stop, the beautiful country of South Africa, home of the 2010 World Cup (as a soccer fan, this is a huge deal). Emily, Ashley, and Chantal were extremely excited. Every week they tried to guess where we were going next, and none of them ever guessed that Brad would take them halfway around the world. We've traveled all over the world, but there are very few places that take longer to get to than South Africa. But after over 20 hours in the air, we arrived at Kruger Mpumpalanga International Airport, and let me tell you, from the moment we landed, it was worth every second. Lush rolling hills, friendly people, and the promise of the most anticipated dates of every season of The Bachelor, the overnight dates.
Yes, it's that time again, where Brad will have to hand these women an envelope with an all-too-familiar message. But before we go any further, I want to address a question that a lot of people have asked me: Yes, for the most part, people know what's in the envelope and are not surprised about the fantasy suite, but that doesn't take away from the nerves, excitement, and anticipation of finally being able to be alone with someone after weeks of dating. All day, they have to consider whether or not they're ready to take that next step, and when the envelope arrives, it's really a telling moment.
Now, on to the dates. All of our dates took place in or around Kruger Park, which is one of the largest game reserves in the world. When I say large, I mean massive. They told me it's roughly the size of Israel. It's the very definition of epic and it's probably the best place to see Africa's "Big Five." On a great safari, you'll see all of them — lions, elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, and leopards.
Chantal got the first date, and pretty quickly they saw four of the big five. Only the leopard eluded them. But those weren't the only animals that they saw. The hippo that was joining them for lunch was close enough to charge, but they didn't know how dangerous hippos are until after lunch. Of course, we had guides nearby to make sure everyone was safe, but that hippo was not kidding around. During lunch, the animal hi-jinks continued, as Brad tricked Chantal into eating worms. It looked a lot like beef jerky and Brad didn't let Chantal think anything different until after, when he explained worms are a local delicacy. This didn't sit very well with Chantal and I don't recommend any man tricking his date into eating worms. Once the fantasy suite card arrived, they got to see one of our coolest locations ever. The tree house is unbelievable. It's literally out in the middle of nowhere and has a complete 360 degree view of the African bush. Needless to say, there were huge flying beetles dive-bombing the canopy and as we drove away for the night, we could hear the loud growling of lions. We just hoped Brad and Chantal would make it through to the morning. I talked to Brad the next day and he told me it was one of the most amazing and scariest experiences of his life.
As soon as Emily found out she was going to South Africa, she said that one of her lifelong dreams was to ride an elephant. Brad didn't know this, but he picked the elephant riding date especially for her. I think a big part of that had to do with Brad thinking what a cool story this would be for little Ricki. As soon as Brad and Emily got on top of Tembo, they immediately started talking about her hometown date. He told her how much it meant to him to meet Ricki, and Emily just wished that Ricki could have been with them both in Africa. We took some pictures so Emily could take them home to share the experience. The elephants were really well cared for, but they are still wild animals. Our crew had to hide in bushes all over the trail to make sure that none of the elephants got spooked. The watering hole where the elephants stopped and played was a real highlight. It was amazing to see such big animals playing like little kids. Emily and Brad spent a long time watching them. Although at one point the elephants took their play to the next level; you'll see what I'm talking about next week on the Women Tell All special! Let's just say I may have given the fantasy suite card to the wrong couple.
The dinner location for Emily's date was spectacular. Things were going really smoothly all day, but to be honest, no one knew if Emily was going to accept the fantasy suite card. After all, she has a daughter at home, and she always put her daughter first. That said, she made it clear that she just wanted time to spend with Brad, especially if she was going to move forward in the relationship. Just to make things awkward, when Emily opened the envelope, the key fell to the ground, slipped through the cracks of the floorboards, and disappeared into the water below. Luckily, we had a spare.
The final date of the week went to Ashley. Who would have thought that Ashley would be afraid of helicopters? This is The Bachelor! She was pretty quick to come around and hop in, but this helicopter ride was a little different. Brad's side of the chopper didn't have a door, so he was just about hanging on the outside. When they landed at God's Window in Nelspruit, the name spoke for itself. Views like this just don't exist anywhere else. During the aerial tour of the bush, they even got to see something really rare: a pack of wild horses running through a clearing. While this was going on, back at base camp, an angry hyena tore through one of our coolers with its teeth and drank a lot of our water. Of course, we held off on dinner for Brad and Ashley for a while until we were sure the coast was clear. Maybe this was a sign, as this was a very emotional date for Brad and Ashley, and I think their up-and-down relationship was starting to wear on Brad. It's a little close to the end to keep "retracting," to use Ashley's words. (On a side note, as we drove in for the rose ceremony, we finally did see a leopard up in a tree. Check that one off, and the "Big Five" was complete.)
It was good to be back in the deliberation chair with Brad. We'd talked every step of the way, but now, I could see that Brad was really starting to feel the pressure of his decisions. He's been making bold decisions this whole way and now he felt like he had to make another one. I really respect Brad for pulling Ashley aside and trying to make sure he was doing the right thing by letting her go — it was a tough and surprising moment for everyone.
I have so much more to say about Ashley, her exit and her relationship with Brad, but I'm going to hold off until next week. Next Monday night, all of your favorite bachelorettes from this season will be back to talk about everything you did see and some things you didn't on The Women Tell All. This turned out to be one of the most surprisingly aggressive and emotional Tell All specials I've ever hosted. I can't begin to tell you how blown away you'll be by Michelle. It's a special you won't want to miss! As always, you can find much more about the show on abc.com/bachelor, and be sure to follow us at @Thebachelortv and @chrisbharrison on Twitter. Have a great week and I hope to see you all at the Tell All next Monday night!
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Israel In Egypt
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Thanks to the prestige, enthusiasm, and expertise of Early Music Vancouver, audiences at the Chan Centre have come to expect summertime productions of major works from the Baroque era. This year, Handel's oratorio Israel In Egypt, Early Music Festival's concert centrepiece, was a dramatic tour de force based on the Book of Exodus.
Arguably the work of Handel receives disproportionate emphasis in our post-colonial music culture; yet a chance to hear Israel in Egypt is an event of significance.
The core of this project was an all-star super-choir drawn from a lavish pool of soloists (who sang smallish vignettes during the course of the extravaganza, which ran almost three hours), bolstered by another dozen or so hand-picked professional singers.
The results were telling. Here was a vocal ensemble of striking ability and musical sophistication. Add the players of the Pacific Baroque Orchestra, augmented with fine authentic wind, brass, and percussion players, and the preconditions for great music were in place.
The work is structured in three longish segments that proceed from mourning through drama (all those plagues) to victory and rejoicing. Handel keeps the focus on the choir; smaller ensembles and virtuoso arias are kept to a minimum. Given the rich complement of "soloists," many of whom have become predictable EMV regulars, it's hardly to the point to single out individual moments.
Even so, tenor Charles Daniels and alto Reginald L. Mobley were particularly noteworthy: Daniels in his extraordinary florid aria The Enemy Said, and Mobley in The Land Brought Forth Frogs. Surely one of the most engagingly ridiculous things Handel ever penned.
It was the big picture that really mattered, and it was here that the considerable success of the endeavour rested. Handel doesn't miss a trick in creating spectacular choral effects; neither did music director Alexander Weimann in bringing them to life with theatrical cunning and an all-embracing sense of joy.
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A measure of the number of Americans who signed contracts to buy homes rose in January from December to the highest level in more than 2 1/2 years.
The increase suggests sales of previously occupied homes will continue rising in the coming months.
The National Association of Realtors said Wednesday its seasonally adjusted index for pending home sales rose 4.5 percent last month to 105.9. That's the highest since April 2010, when a home buyer's tax credit was about to expire.
The trend has been the same in Southwest Florida.
In the territory covered by the Sarasota Association of Realtors, there were 1,047 pending sales during January, the highest level in nine months and above the 963 registered a year ago.
In Manatee County, there were 546 pending sales. That was more than double the number in January 2011 and up 70 percent from 320 in December.
There is generally a one- to two-month lag between a signed contract and a completed sale.
Pending home sales rose in all regions, but just barely ticked up in the West, where a limited supply of available homes is holding back sales.
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When using larger format lenses on smaller format cameras what you get is a crop cut from the centre of the image the lens provides. So, a 28mm lens when used on a (x1.5 crop) APS-C camera gives an effective FoV of (28 x 1.5=) 42mm. The only real change is in the DoF as you're using a 28mm lens and not a 42mm lens.I used to use a 30mm f1.4 on my (APS-C) Canon 20D and I was very happy with it and I currently use a 25mm f0.95 and a 28mm f2.8 on my (Micro Four Thirds) Panasonic G1 and get good results.
However, the "effective" DOF will change due to the crop. This is true whether the crop is done in camera or in post.John
The assumption often inherent in questions of this sort is that certain focal lengths are intrinsically wide, others intrinsically normal and still others intrinsically long. This is most definitely not the case.
Discussions about DoF never end well on internet forums but I'd argue that simply cropping the image doesn't alter the DoF, how could it when all cropping is is cutting the edges off, the DoF wont alter.
DoF is dependent of format--whether you change format or crop does not matter. DoF does change with cropping because you are changing format. But you are not simply cutting the edges off in cropping. You are also effectively enlarging the image. Since you are also enlarging the CoC at the same time, the CoC that was acceptably sharp in the full image, can become too large in the crop.
It will however alter if you alter the image further by printing the cropped image as large as you would have printed the whole image
Your display images are poor vehicles to show the image, they just don't have the resolution, clarity, or quality to show the problem...not your images...the vehicle. I have lots of images that I have no embarrassment to show on my site, but would never print at 12"x18".
Can a 28mm full-frame lens accurately be described as a 'normal' lens for APS-C purely by virtue of it's focal length ...Wondering if there are differences in lens design between 'wide', 'normal' and 'tele' lenses of the same focal length - I realise that they cover different image circles, but if we could somehow ignore that.
I understand it's possible for a lenses optical design to be 'wide' or 'normal' or 'telephoto'.So here's a rephrase of the question - if I were to have two hypothetical lenses of identical focal length, say 35mm, one with a 'wide' optical design and one with a 'telephoto' optical design, both shot on the same camera at the same aperture of the same subject and both able to cover my image circle would I see any difference in the images produced?I completely understand that changing film/sensor format allows a lens to perform as wide, normal or tele but does a lens have visible 'wide' or 'telephoto' characteristics independent of the film/sensor size?
Wide, normal, and telephoto usually refer to apparent perspective/field of view of a lens with a given format. Normal is a focal length equal to the diagonal of the format. It is "normal" in that the standard viewing distance (as defined as the distance equal to the image diagonal) and the correct viewing (distance as defined as a viewing distance proportional to the focal length) are equal. The result is an image that has an apparent perspective of an actual viewer (normal has nothing to do with the field of view of the human eye). Wide is for focal lengths shorter than normal and telephoto for focal lengths longer.