Peter and all, I see from your blog post that this will happen Sep. 4, 2010, which is not too far off. From the Green Chemistry perspective, is it possible to connect to resources like the ACS GCI Green Chemistry Resource Exchange http://www.greenchemex.org/ . I know Bob Hanson was involved in its initial development (he is the person who introduced me to BO). I just ran a ConfChem on Green Chemistry and Sustainability oriented towards educators and could contact some of the people from ACS GCI (they contributed a paper)....although ACS is not a bastion of open science, I think the GCI is quite "open" (a word I often misunderstand) and are trying to reach out to people.
This also seems like the type of project Julie Haack who has been working on the GEMS (Greener Educational Materials) and GCEdNET (Green Chemistry Education Network) would be interested in helping out with. I could contact her if you are not familiar with her or her efforts. http://greenchem.uoregon.edu/gems.html http://cmetim.ning.com/ Although I have been an active lurker on the BO list I have really appreciated the stuff you folks are doing, and I agree with Henry in that the more we learn about and promote green and sustainable chemistry, the better off we all are. Cheers, Bob On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 8:07 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <[email protected]> wrote: > As you can see from http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/blogs/murrayrust/?p=2526 > we are starting an ambitious communal event in datadriven science. It will > be presented live at the British Library for Science Online 2010 (nature, > Mendely, BL sponsors) with a very high profile (e.g. getting widely > reported, involving a world community) Jean-Claude and MatTodd will be > taking part. I would love help from more BlueObelisk readers and anyone else > who might be interested. > > The question we want to answer is “Are chemical reactions becoming > greener?” by using text-mining and other information extraction from the > Open Chemical literature. > > The Blue Obelisk and the chemical blogosphere can help. > Examples of help are: > * blog the event > * project page/wiki > * list of solvents (do we have this?) > * list of reagents > * software to balance reactions from products and reactants and reagents. > How much of this does CDK do? > * software to deduce reaction type from products and reactants and > reagents. How much of this does CDK do? > * sources or Open reactions. The most likely are personal papers, theses, > etc. data mining behind publishers' firewalls is forbidden > * requests to publishers to make their experiemental sections fully Open. > > and of course your ideas on what else we can do... > Rich, do you have Open reactions? > Can we scrape reactions from Wikipedia? > Can we get solvents , reagents from Wikipedia? > .. etc. > > > P. > > > -- > Peter Murray-Rust > Reader in Molecular Informatics > Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry > University of Cambridge > CB2 1EW, UK > +44-1223-763069 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > This SF.net email is sponsored by > > Make an app they can't live without > Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge > http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss > >
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