On Feb 16, 2010, at 6:34 PM, Andrew Dalke wrote: > Another question I have is what difference would a clear definition make? > Would the OB people stop supporting SD files? Or would someone sit down > (perhaps clean-room like) and write an "OpenCT" definition which is > independent from the MDL format description? ... > Or, my hope is that the OB people agree with my statement that SMILES and the > MDL connection table formats specifications are open; or at least give me a > clear statement why they aren't.
One of my (unstated) goals with Open Babel is to support as many file formats as possible. Leave no chemical data behind and process it as accurately as possible. I support MDL, CDX, MOL2, and other formats which might be considered "non-open" by Egon. No offense to Egon, but he's not part of the OB project. (Sadly, Blue Obelisk = BO, which is an easy typo...) I like Peter's comments about "rough consensus and running code." That's very much in line with my view. Tests are also welcome. Cheers, -Geoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SOLARIS 10 is the OS for Data Centers - provides features such as DTrace, Predictive Self Healing and Award Winning ZFS. Get Solaris 10 NOW http://p.sf.net/sfu/solaris-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
