On 9/12/07, Noel O'Boyle <baoille...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Just a note: you can point the SF home page to go to whatever website you > want.
yep; I just had never updated that after registering the rdkit.org domain. It's fixed(ish) now. > > My last look at blue obelisk was, admittedly, a while ago, but I > > somehow got the impression at the time that it was pretty > > Java-centric. Is this true? > > I can understand your impression. I'm not into Java though. The other > side is the C++ code of OpenBabel, and Python code for various things > (e.g. GaussSum, cclib for comp chem, and Python bindings for > OpenBabel). Also, the BO is involved in sharing chemical data, e.g. > names of elements, atomic weights and so on, so that we don't keep > having to re-enter this information in different software. (Check out > Blue Obelisk Data Repository on google). Interoperability is also one > of our goals. I'll take a fresh look at what's on the website (particularly the data pages); thanks for the pointer. > In the end, the BO is a loosely coupled bunch of chemists/computer > scientists with largely the same goals but lots of different ideas > about getting there. In short, I recommend subscribing to the mailing > list, or the RSS feed, checking out the wiki, and keeping an eye on > things. There's a couple of very interesting blogs too, if I do say so > myself.. Nice ad. :-) I'll keep an eye on things and we can collaboratively see if there's useful overlap. -greg
