/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ en-us derekb.lowe@gmail.com 2013-05-10T06:46:54-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/10/why_not_share_more_bioactivity_data.php The ChEMBL database of compounds has been including bioactivity data for some time, and the next version of it is slated to have even more. There are a lot of numbers out in the open literature that can be collected,... 76407@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Drug Assays 2013-05-10T06:46:54-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/08/total_synthesis_in_print.php Over at the Baran group's "Open Flask" blog, there's a post on the number of total synthesis papers that show up in the Journal of the American Chemical Society. I'm reproducing one of the figures below, the percentage of JACS... 76400@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Chemical News 2013-05-08T09:57:00-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/05/07/one_case_of_plagiarism_down_two_zillion_to_go.php You may remember this case from Chemistry - A European Journal earlier this year, where a paper appeared whose text was largely copy-pasted from a previous JACS paper from another lab. This one has finally been pulled; Retraction Watch has... 76393@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-05-07T06:20:42-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/30/is_glyphosate_poisoning_everyone.php I've had a few people send along this article, on the possible toxicological effects of the herbicide glyphosate, wondering what I make of it as a medicinal chemist. It's getting a lot of play in some venues, particularly the news-from-Mother-Nature... 76378@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-04-30T06:57:46-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/26/research_fraud_from_a_master_fraud_artist.php A couple of years back, I wrote about the egregious research fraud case of Diederick Stapel. Here's an extraordinary follow-up in the New York Times Magazine, which will give you the shivers. Here, try this part out: In one experiment... 76370@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Dark Side 2013-04-26T11:29:13-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/25/towards_better_papers_with_real_results_in_them.php This has to be a good thing. From the latest issue of Nature comes news of an initiative to generate more reproducible papers: From next month, Nature and the Nature research journals will introduce editorial measures to address the problem... 76367@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-04-25T11:44:58-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/08/scientific_posters_heads_on_platters_and_lawsuits.php Yep, these all tie together. Have a look at this post at Retraction Watch for the details. It's about Colin Purrington, who has a web site on designing posters for conferences. I hadn't seen it before, but it's attained quite... 76331@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-04-08T10:44:43-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/01/fake_journals_but_theyd_like_real_money.php I wish that this were an April Fool's entry - and a number of scientists would like for that to have been the case, too. Nature reports that at least two journals (Archives des Sciences from Geneva and Wulfenia, a... 76315@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-04-01T06:57:50-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/29/the_price_of_publishing.php So, how much does it cost to publish a scientific paper, anyway? I'm not only talking about how much it costs you. That varies from journal to journal, and from type of journal to type of journal. One aspect of... 76312@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-03-29T07:31:03-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/25/advertising_in_the_supplementary_information.php Here's a publication concern I'd never come across before. A reader sends word that an ACS journal asked him and his co-authors to remove the names of vendors and manufacturers in their Supporting Information, over concerns that this might be... 76299@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-03-25T06:39:59-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/14/scientists_and_google_readers_demise.php I suspect that many people follow this blog through its RSS feed. And I feel sure that many readers here follow the current scientific literature that way. Journals are updated constantly, and that's the most concentrated way to get all... 76276@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-03-14T04:38:03-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/06/anonymity_fakery_et_al.php I wanted to link to this piece at C&E News on the whole question of anonymity when it comes to comments on the chemical literature. This was brought on by the advent of Blog Syn, but it applied before that,... 76259@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-03-06T07:45:51-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/03/06/open_access_for_acs_articles.php Rich Apodaca investigates something that I didn't know, either: that the ACS provides the corresponding authors of papers with links to their articles, which (1) allow for fifty free downloads during the first year after publication, and (2) allow for... 76258@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-03-06T07:39:19-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/02/26/phil_baran_at_blog_syn.php I linked recently to the latest reaction check at Blog Syn, benzylic oxidation by IBX. Now Prof. Baran (a co-author on the original paper, from his Nicoloau days) has written See Arr Oh with a detailed repeat of the experiment.... 76237@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ Chemical News 2013-02-26T07:36:07-05:00 http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/02/22/what_if_the_journal_disappears.php Hmm, here's a question I hadn't considered. What happens when an online-only journal quits publishing and (apparently) deletes its archives? That's what seems to have happened with the "Journal of Advances in Developmental Research". Now, to a first approximation, the... 76232@/home/corante/public_html/pipeline/ The Scientific Literature 2013-02-22T11:09:47-05:00