Organization:Blue Obelisk

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Blue Obelisk
Logo Blue Obelisk.svg
Formation2005
FounderPeter Murray-Rust
Membership
23+
Official language
English
Budget
zero
Websitehttp://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]

Dependency diagram of some Blue Obelisk projects.

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

  1. P. Murray-Rust, The Blue Obelisk, CDK News, 2005, 2, 43–46
  2. 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. PMID 16711717. 
  3. O'Boyle, N; Guha, R; Willighagen, EL; Adams, SE; Alvarsson, J; Bradley, JC; Filippov, IV; Hanson, RM et al. (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. PMID 21999342. 
  4. "OpenSMILES Home Page". http://www.opensmiles.org/. 
  5. "UsefulChem - home". http://usefulchem.wikispaces.com/. 
  6. "The Blue Obelisk / Blue Obelisk Wiki / Blue_Obelisk_Awards". https://sourceforge.net/p/blueobelisk/bowiki/Blue_Obelisk_Awards/. 
  7. "Alex D. Wade". https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexwade/. 
  8. "NextMove Software / News". https://www.nextmovesoftware.com/news.html. 

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