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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Open-source, open-access chemistry

Rajarshi Guha and seven co-authors, The Blue Obelisk: Interoperability in Chemical Informatics, Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, February 22, 2006. Only this abstract is free online, at least so far:
The Blue Obelisk Movement is the name used by a diverse Internet group promoting reusable chemistry via open source software development, consistent and complimentary chemoinformatics research, open data, and open standards. We outline recent examples of cooperation in the Blue Obelisk group: a shared dictionary of algorithms and implementations in chemoinformatics algorithms drawing from our various software projects; a shared repository of chemoinformatics data including elemental properties, atomic radii, isotopes, atom typing rules, and so forth; and Web services for the platform-independent use of chemoinformatics programs.