I have been invited to write an article on Chemical Informatics for Nature Horizons - about 3000 words I think. I've discussed this with the editor and he is very happy that this looks to the future. I therefore will highlight some of the following:
* the Blue Obelisk * the chemical blogosphere * chemistry in Wikipedia * collections of Open data (BODR, NMRShiftDB, WWMM - what else?) * open notebook science * the current and future technology (RDF, semantic web, GoogleData) * social chemical computing * contributions from bioscience (PubChem, chEBI) They would like some graphic material and I suggested chemical reactions in SL (would have to include a blue obelisk). We'd probably put something from WWMM as well (maybe crystaleye). I am allowed some slight rants, so these will include the conservative nature of chemistry publishing in general (Prospect is a small step), and the stagnation of the traditional chemical software and information industry, and the lack of appreciation of chemistry+informatics as a fundable subject. So the main thing is a spectacular image, but if any of you have ideas for growing points I have missed... Peter Murray-Rust Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics University of Cambridge, Lensfield Road, Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
