Blue Obelisk - Interoperability in chemical informatics

Rajarshi Guha, MT Howard, GR Hutchison, P Murray-Rust, H Rzepa, Christoph Steinbeck*, J Wegner, EL Willighagen

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Abstract

The Blue Obelisk Movement (http://www.blueobelisk.org/) 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.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)991-998
Number of pages8
JournalJournal of Chemical Information and Modeling
Volume46
Issue number3
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - May 2006

Keywords

  • DER-WAALS RADII
  • VAN
  • ELEMENTS
  • MARKUP
  • WEB
  • XML

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