That's good news, but can I check what you mean by "free". There are two
uses,
* gratis as in free beer
* libre as in free speech.
gratis means only that you have a temporary access to a good. This privilege
can be withdrawn at any stage and the recipient does not own the good and
cannot make further use (re-use)
libre means that the recipient has full rights (except attribution) to the
good and can re-use it for whatever purpose. It is exemplified by the CC-BY
licence from Creative commons or the Open Knowledge Foundations "Open Data"
button.
I cannot speak for the Blue Obelisk as a whole - no-one can - but their
mantra is Open Data, Open Source, Open Standards where open=libre.
This is not to belittle your offer, but gratis alone is not generally in
scope for Blue Obelisk - e.g. to create derivatives works, etc.
P.
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 5:43 PM, Craig James <[email protected]>wrote:
> I've reactivated http://depict.emolecules.com, which generates nice 2D
> pictures using OpenBabel's --gen2D feature. Our intent is to keep this
> service running from now on. The terms of use still say it's experimental,
> but that's mostly a precaution.
>
> For those of you who haven't discovered it yet, we're also offering the
> entire eMolecules collection of compounds (currently about 7.6 million
> compounds) for free, in both SMILES and SDF formats. This is an excellent
> resource for virtual screening, because unlike many other public databases,
> we keep eMolecules up to date with currently-available compounds. If your
> virtual screening turns up something interesting, then it's a good bet you
> can actually buy it. You can find this at:
> http://www.emolecules.com/doc/plus/download-database.php
>
> We're also in the process of generating multiple 3D conformers for the
> entire collection. We decided that one of our backup servers, with its 8
> CPUs, could be put to good use on this task, and our UC San Diego intern,
> Marshall Levesque, pulled together all the pieces for this job. Marshall's
> computations have been burning up the electrons for about four weeks now,
> and should be finished soon.
>
> Craig
>
> P.S. I'm cross-posting this to both OpenBabel and Blue Obelisk
>
>
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