![]() ![]() Many of the efforts relate to cheminformatics (the scope of this journal) and we believe that many of the publications in Journal of Cheminformatics could be completely carried out using Blue Obelisk resources and other Open Source chemical tools. The Blue Obelisk covers many areas of chemistry and chemical resources used by neighbouring disciplines ( e.g. This contribution looks back on the work carried out by the Blue Obelisk over the past 5 years in the areas of Open Data, Open Source, and Open Standards in chemistry. The Blue Obelisk was first described in the CDK News and later as a formal paper by Guha et al. All three of these goals stem from the fundamental tenants of the scientific method for data sharing and reproducibility. Note that while some may advocate also for Open Access to publications, the Blue Obelisk goals (ODOSOS) focus more on the availability of the underlying scientific data, standards (to exchange data), and code (to reproduce results). One can use other people's code without further permission, including changing it for one's own use and distributing it again. The mechanisms for creating and maintaining these standards cover a wide spectrum of human organisations, including various degrees of consent. One can find visible community mechanisms for protocols and communicating information. One can obtain all scientific data in the public domain when wanted and reuse it for whatever purpose. Rather it is a grassroots organisation, catalysed by an initial core of interested scientists, but with membership open to all who share one or more of the goals of the group: The formation of the Blue Obelisk group is somewhat unusual in that it is not a funded network, nor does it follow the industry consortium model. In fact, one of the first free and open databases and ontologies of small molecules was created as a resource about chemical structure and nomenclature by biologists. In many areas in biology, for example, the importance of small molecules and their interactions and reactions in biological systems has been realised. Since 2005 it has become evident that a good amount of development in open chemical information is driven by the demands of neighbouring scientific fields. ![]() ![]() While other scientific disciplines such as physics, biology and astronomy (to name a few) were embracing new ways of doing science and reaping the benefits of community efforts, there was little if any innovation in the field of chemistry and scientific progress was actively hampered by the lack of access to data and tools. The Blue Obelisk movement was established in 2005 at the 229 th National Meeting of the American Chemistry Society as a response to the lack of Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source (ODOSOS) in chemistry. ![]()
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