Useful Chemistry

Matthew McBride , an undergraduate chemistry major at Drexel University working in the Bradley Laboratory, was awarded the November 2012 Open Notebook Science Challenge Award sponsored by the Roy...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2012/11/matthew-mcbride-wins-nov-2012-ons.html

I recently presented a 15 minute summary of the current research in my lab on September 29, 2011 at the Drexel University Department of Chemistry Faculty Mini-Symposium. The main project discusse...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/10/minisymposium-bradley-lab-2011.html

One of my former Ph. D. students, Patrick Ndungu (now at University of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa) will be speaking at Drexel University on Friday August 19, 2011 at 12:30 in Disque 109. > S...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/08/patrick-ndungu-talk-at-drexel-on.html

Andrew Lang will be in Philadelphia next week and we will be running a workshop on Leveraging Google Spreadsheets with Scripts for Research and Teaching. Now that our institution is no longer pr...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/08/google-apps-scripts-workshop-at-drexel.html

Several months of work through a collaboration between myself, Andrew Lang , Antony Williams and Evan Curtin have culminated in the publication of an Open Melting Point Collection Book. Like ou...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/08/open-melting-point-collection-book.html

I recently reported on how Google Apps Scripts can be used to facilitate the recording and calculations associated with a chemistry laboratory notebook. (also see resource page ) I will demonst...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/07/rapid-analysis-of-melting-point-trends.html

A few weeks ago I described our use of Google Apps Scripts , developed by Rich Apodaca and Andrew Lang , as an intuitive interface to information related to a chemistry laboratory notebook. Sinc...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/07/practical-tips-on-using-google-apps.html

On April 6, 2011 I presented at the HUBzero Conference in Indianapolis on "Open Notebook Science: Does Transparency Work?". > This presentation will first describe Open Notebook Science...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/07/open-notebook-science-talk-at-hubbub.html

Evan Curtin and I were in the lab this morning to follow up on our effort to curate the melting point of 4-benzyltoluene . I identified the next step to confirm an upper limit of -15 C: > Wit...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/4-benzyltoluene-melting-point-twist.html

Rich Apodaca recently demonstrated how Google Apps Scripts can be added to Google Spreadsheets to enable simple calling of web services for chemistry applications (gChem). Although we have been...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/google-apps-scripts-for-intuitive.html

Eugenie Samuel Reich just announced on the Nature NewsBlog that astronomer Mike Brown live-tweeted his observations of a transit of dwarf planet Haumea by its moon, Namaka . About a year ag...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/live-tweeting-haumea-open-science.html

On June 14 and 15, 2011 I attended the Special Libraries Association conference and made presentations on two panels on the role of trust in science with a case-study of the Open Melting Point c...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-talk-at-sla-on-trust-in-science-and.html

There are many motivations for performing scientific research. One of these is the desire to advance public scientific knowledge. This is a difficult concept to quantify or even qualitatively as...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/more-on-4-benzyltoluene-and-impact-of.html

As Alex Clark explained on his blog Cheminformatics 2.0 , both predicted and experimental melting points from our Open Data collection are now available on iPhones via his MMDS webservices proto...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/open-melting-points-on-iphone-via-mmds.html

I recently reported that we are attempting to curate the open melting point measurements collected from multiple sources such as Alfa Aesar , PhysProp (EPIsuite) and several smaller collections...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/06/quest-to-determine-melting-point-of-4.html

As recently as 2008, Hughes et al published a paper asking: Why Are Some Properties More Difficult To Predict than Others? A Study of QSPR of Solubility, Melting Point, and Log P > The questi...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/05/more-open-melting-points-from-epi-and.html

On May 9, 2011 I presented remotely for the French-Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science (ACFAS ). This was the first time I gave a talk about Open Notebook Science in French. In ...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/05/la-science-par-cahier-de-laboratoire.html

On May 1, 2011 I presented "Accelerating Discovery by Sharing: a case for Open Notebook Science" at the National Breast Cancer Coalition Annual Advocacy Conference in Arlington, VA. This was the...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/05/breast-cancer-coalition-talk-on-ons-and.html

I am very pleased to report that the book chapter that I co-wrote with Andrew Lang , Steve Koch and Cameron Neylon is now available online: Collaboration using Open Notebook Science in Academia...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/05/collaboration-using-open-notebook.html

Evan Curtin , a chemistry freshman student working under the supervision of Jean-Claude Bradley at Drexel University, is the May 2011 Royal Society of Chemistry Open Notebook Science Challenge Aw...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/05/evan-curtin-is-may-2011-rsc-ons.html

Update: the recording of my ACS talk on Rapid Dissemination of Chemical Information for people and machines using Open Notebook Science is now available here . On March 30 and 31, 2011 I present...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/04/acs-and-acrl-presentations-on-web.html

Last week, I came across (via David Bradley ) a paper by an MIT group regarding the desalination of water using a very clever application of solubility behavior: > Anurag Bajpayee, Tengfei L...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/03/towards-automated-discovery-of-useful.html

The contribution of Alfa Aesar melting point data to our open collection has facilitated the validation of a significant amount of the entire dataset. However, this process of curation is never...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/03/open-modeling-of-melting-point-data.html

I recently reported that Alfa Aesar publicly released their melting point dataset for us to use to take into account temperature in solubility measurements . Since then, Andrew Lang , Antony Wil...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/03/validating-melting-point-data-from-alfa.html

An interesting application of the data from the Open Notebook Science Solubility Challenge has recently been reported in Langmuir: "Enhanced Ordering in Gold Nanoparticles Self-Assembly through ...

http://usefulchem.blogspot.com/2011/02/ons-solubility-challenge-book-cited-in.html