Following on from my post there has been lots of discussion both in the comments to the post and also support and ideas on other blogs. I also had a good talk (I know, face to face, how archaic :) with Jeremy Frey about the idea. Here I want to collate a few of the comments and ideas. Read more »

Posted: April 6th, 2008 under drug discovery, funding, open data, open science, organic chemistry, undergraduate teaching.
Comments: 4

A whole series of things have converged in the last couple of days for me. First was Jean-Claude’s description of the work [1, 2] he and Brent Friesen of the Dominican University are doing putting the combi-Ugi project into an undergraduate laboratory setting. The students will make new compounds which will then be sent for testing as antimalarial agents by Phil Rosenthal at UCSF. This is a great story and a testament in particular to Brent’s work to make the laboratory practical more relevant and exciting for his students.

At the same time I get an email from Anna Croft, University of Bangor, Wales, after meeting up the previous day; Read more »

Posted: April 3rd, 2008 under docking, drug discovery, funding, open data, open notebook science, open science, organic chemistry, screening, undergraduate teaching.
Comments: 7