George, I recommend as the standard publication in terms of chemistry in Second Life to be the one recently published by Jean-Claude Bradley and Andrew Lang. Its an excellent publication
http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/3/1/14 Best wishes. Antony Williams PhD, FRSC VP Strategic Development ChemSpider, Royal Society of Chemistry US Office: 904 Tamaras Circle, Wake Forest, NC-27587 Phone: +1 (919) 201-1516 Fax: +1 (919) 300-5321 From: Peter Murray-Rust [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2009 10:13 PM To: [email protected] Cc: BlueObelisk-Discuss Subject: [Blueobelisk-discuss] Virtual scientific worlds George, I was very excited by your plenary at the Australasia eResearch meeting where you painted the future directions of cyberscience. In particular I'm following up your initiative in virtual worlds ( http://www.mica-vw.org/wiki/index.php/Meta_Institute_for_Computational_A strophysics) where astronomers have created their own area in Second Life. When we chatted I mentioned that we had done a similar thing in chemistry (The Blue Obelisk, http://www.blueobelisk.org) where we espouse the virtues of collaboration and sharing through ODOSOS (Open Data/Source/Standards). We also share a vision of collaborative science, so this mail is to register an (unstructured and uncharted) willingness to pursue interdisciplinary science in cyberspace. The BO is an unfunded, unstructured group which is now 5 years old and holds itself together through the e-charisma of its members (there is no official membership, of course, and this is determined by a gift society). We believe that Open Source and Data will inexorably increase and become mainstream, although it can be painful and lonely at present. Our tools interoperate and we often forgo glory for utility. In particular we have colonised part of SL which contains tools for presentations and creating molecules. This is a good opportunity for some of us to review the current state of the BO in SL. P. -- Peter Murray-Rust Reader in Molecular Informatics Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry University of Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK +44-1223-763069
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