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SpringerOpen, Journal of Cheminformatics, 1(3), 2011

DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-3-37

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Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards in chemistry: The Blue Obelisk five years on

Journal article published in 2011 by Noel M. O'Boyle ORCID, Rajarshi Guha, Egon L. Willighagen, Samuel E. Adams, Jonathan Alvarsson, Richard L. Apodaca, Jean-Claude Bradley ORCID, Igor V. Filippov, Robert M. Hanson, Marcus D. Hanwell, Geoffrey R. Hutchison ORCID, Craig A. James James, Nina Jeliazkova, Andrew Sid I. D. Lang, Karol M. Langner ORCID and other authors.
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Abstract Background The Blue Obelisk movement was established in 2005 as a response to the lack of Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source (ODOSOS) in chemistry. It aims to make it easier to carry out chemistry research by promoting interoperability between chemistry software, encouraging cooperation between Open Source developers, and developing community resources and Open Standards. Results This contribution looks back on the work carried out by the Blue Obelisk in the past 5 years and surveys progress and remaining challenges in the areas of Open Data, Open Standards, and Open Source in chemistry. Conclusions We show that the Blue Obelisk has been very successful in bringing together researchers and developers with common interests in ODOSOS, leading to development of many useful resources freely available to the chemistry community. ; RIGHTS : This article is licensed under the BioMed Central licence at http://www.biomedcentral.com/about/license which is similar to the 'Creative Commons Attribution Licence'. In brief you may : copy, distribute, and display the work; make derivative works; or make commercial use of the work - under the following conditions: the original author must be given credit; for any reuse or distribution, it must be made clear to others what the license terms of this work are.