[BiO BB] Indiana Cheminformatics Education Portal

[David Wild]

Dan, thanks a lot for the links. I was unaware of the semantic mediawiki
project which looks especially interesting

I could probably export the pages in wikitext format and upload them to the
bioinformatics.org wiki - I will look into this

David
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Dr. David J. Wild, djwild at indiana.edu, http://djwild.info
Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing
Director of Cheminformatics Program
School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
901 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408


On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 4:28 AM, Dan Bolser <dan.bolser at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cheers David,
>
> I'll look forward to seeing what you produce.
>
> At some point I was planning to build a medicinal informatics
> 'resource archive' within the Bioinformatics.Org wiki . This would
> build on a very old (static) project hosted at Bioinformatics.Org
> called 'The Structural Classification of Ligands' or SCOL.
>
> * http://www.bioinformatics.org/wiki/
> * http://www.bioinformatics.org/scol/
>
>
> If you're not too far down the line with wikispaces, you may consider
> switching to a wiki project within Bioinformatics.Org. The main
> attraction for me (apart from being free as in beer / free as in
> speech) is the Semantic MediaWiki software that allows the wiki to be
> used as a semantic web enabled 'community database', which I find
> quite exciting.
>
> http://semantic-mediawiki.org/wiki/Semantic_MediaWiki
>
>
> Best of luck with the project!
> Dan.
>
> 2009/11/3 David Wild <djwild at indiana.edu>
> >
> > All,
> >
> > Over the past few years, we have been building a graduate curriculum in
> > cheminformatics at Indiana University with an emphasis on distance
> > education, and in particular making cheminformatics learning as
> accessible
> > as possible for people in other fields such as bioinformatics. In the
> > process, we have generated a fair body of learning materials for
> > cheminformatics.
> >
> > In the next couple of years we hope to make a good portion of these
> > materials freely available in wiki format under a Creative Commons
> > noncommercial share-alike license (meaning they can be freely used for
> any
> > noncommercial purpose, so long as they are attributed and any derivative
> > materials are made available under a similar license). To facilitate
> this,
> > we have created a wiki site at *http://icep.wikispaces.com* as a central
> > point to make these materials available.
> >
> > Currently, the site is fairly scant, but we are planning on building a
> > reasonably comprehensive set of introductory cheminformatics materials by
> > Christmas, and then to start working on converting some more advanced
> > materials next year.
> >
> > Do please let me know (i) if you find this site useful, (ii) any
> > corrections, and (ii) any suggestions as to how we might develop it
> further
> > and make it as useful as possible
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > David
> > ____________________________________________________
> >
> > Dr. David J. Wild, djwild at indiana.edu, http://djwild.info
> > Assistant Professor of Informatics & Computing
> > Director of Cheminformatics Program
> > School of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University
> > 901 E. 10th St., Bloomington, IN 47408
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