Blue Obelisk

Type	Cheminformatics
Website	http://www.blueobelisk.org/

Informal group of chemists, www.blueobelisk.org, to promote Open Data, Open Source, and Open Standards initiated by Peter Murray-Rust and others in 2005^[1][2]. Multiple open source cheminformatics associate themselves with the Blue Obelisk, among which, in alphabetical order, Bioclipse, Chemistry Development Kit, JChemPaint, JOELib, Kalzium, Openbabel, OpenSMILES, and UsefulChem.

The project has handed out personal awards for achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Among those who received a Blue Obelisk Award are Christoph Steinbeck (2006), Geoff Hutchinson (2006), Egon Willighagen (2007), Jean-Claude Bradley (2007), and Ola Spjuth (2007) ^[3].

[edit] See also

• Cheminformatics

[edit] References

1. ^ The Blue Obelisk, CDK News, 2005, 2, 43-46
2. ^ The Blue Obelisk - Interoperability in Chemical Informatics, Rajarshi Guha, Michael T. Howard, Geoffrey R. Hutchison, Peter Murray-Rust, Henry Rzepa, Christoph Steinbeck, Jörg K. Wegner, and Egon L. Willighagen, J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2006, 46, 991-998. PMID 16711717, doi:10.1021/ci050400b
3. ^ http://blueobelisk.sourceforge.net/wiki/Blue_Obelisk_Awards