"You're doing the morphic resonance thing again Deepak. Was just talking to someone this morning about the issues that seem to be universal with building the instrument control and data reduction software for large user facilities like mine. Do you let the instrument scientists, who are usually competent coders, but not software engineers, just get on and do it (the traditional approach) or bring in software people are are a) much more expensive and b) don't know the user experience but may be equipped to build something that is more easily extendable (and might be documented)" - Cameron Neylon
I haven't had a chance to read this yet, but looks good. Not sure whether anyone else had shared it yet or not. Peter MR has blogged on this at http://tinyurl.com/6qthz8 - Cameron Neylon
This is an interesting conversation with Antony re: safety data in chemspider and more generally. The idea of crowdsourcing useful chemical safety information - Cameron Neylon
"And due to the entrenched network effect commercial science is actually probably moving more rapidly than academia. They have the imperative and they have a better understanding of their IP position and how to protect that position while releasing information." - Cameron Neylon
