Two talks on very different topics were presented by NextMovers at the recent ACS National Meeting in Indianapolis.
Daniel described how LeadMine uses two-state grammars to find dictionary terms, as well as some of the clever techniques he has used to improve performance for the BioCreative CHEMNDER chemical compound text-mining challenge (results not yet announced). Separately, Roger spoke about some of the challenges in the supposedly trivial tasks of reading/writing molecular file formats (for more on the MDLValence benchmark discussed here see an earlier blog post).