Blue Obelisk
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| Formation | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Peter Murray-Rust |
Membership | 23+ |
Official language | English |
Budget | zero |
| Website | http://www.blueobelisk.org/ |
Blue Obelisk is an informal group of chemists who promote open data, open source, and open standards; it was initiated by Peter Murray-Rust and others in 2005.[1][2][3] Multiple open source cheminformatics projects associate themselves with the Blue Obelisk, among which, in alphabetical order, Avogadro, Bioclipse, cclib, Chemistry Development Kit, GaussSum, JChemPaint, JOELib, Kalzium, Openbabel, OpenSMILES,[4] and UsefulChem.[5]
The project has handed out personal awards for achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Among those who received[6] a Blue Obelisk Award are:
- Christoph Steinbeck (2006)
- Geoff Hutchinson (2006)
- Bob Hanson (2006),
- Egon Willighagen (2007)
- Jean-Claude Bradley (2007)
- Ola Spjuth (2007)
- Noel O'Boyle (2010)
- Rajarshi Guha (2010)
- Cameron Neylon (2010)
- Alex Wade[7] (2010)
- Nina Jeliazkova (2010)
- Henry Rzepa (2011)
- Dan Zaharevitz (2011)
- Sam Adams (2011)
- Jens Thomas (2011)
- Marcus Hanwell (2011)
- Roger Sayle (2011)[8]
- the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (2012)
- Saulius Gražulis (2014)
- Antony Williams (2014)
- Daniel Lowe (2014)
- Andrew Lang (2014)
- Matthew H. Todd (2014)
- Greg Landrum (2016)
- Mark Forster (2016)
- John Mayfield (2017)
See also
References
- ^ P. Murray-Rust, The Blue Obelisk, CDK News, 2005, 2, 43–46
- ^ Guha, R; Howard, MT; Hutchison, GR; Murray-Rust, P; Rzepa, H; Steinbeck, C; Wegner, J; Willighagen, EL (2006). "The Blue Obelisk-interoperability in chemical informatics". Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling. 46 (3): 991–8. doi:10.1021/ci050400b. PMC 4878861. PMID 16711717.
- ^ O'Boyle, N; Guha, R; Willighagen, EL; Adams, SE; Alvarsson, J; Bradley, JC; Filippov, IV; Hanson, RM; Hanwell, MD; Hutchinson, GR; James, CA; Jeliazkova, N; Lang, ASID; Langer, KM; Lonie, DC; Lowe, DM; Pansanel, J; Pavlov, D; Spjuth, O; Steinbeck, C; Tenderholt, AL; Theisen, TJ; Murray-Rust, P (2011). "Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards in chemistry: The Blue Obelisk five years on". Journal of Cheminformatics. 3 (1): 37. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-37. PMC 3205042. PMID 21999342.
- ^ "OpenSMILES Home Page".
- ^ "UsefulChem - home".
- ^ "The Blue Obelisk / Blue Obelisk Wiki / Blue_Obelisk_Awards".
- ^ "Alex D. Wade". LinkedIn.
- ^ "NextMove Software / News".