[Molvis-list] Chemistry For All (Nature, Murray-Rust)

Keith Donaldson keith.donaldson at molysym.com
Wed Feb 20 22:51:43 EST 2008


You can find the first draft here:

http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1200/version/1


On Feb 20, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Gorga, Frank wrote:

> Oh, the irony...
>
> The first link (to the Nature article) has this text near the top of  
> the
> page:
>
> "Access
> To read this story in full you will need to login [i.e. pay for a
> subscription] or make a payment (see right)."
>
> ;-)
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Frank R. Gorga, Ph.D.
> Professor
> Dept. of Chemical Sciences
> Bridgewater State College
> 508-531-2827 / fgorga at bridgew.edu
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: molvis-list-bounces at bioinformatics.org
> [mailto:molvis-list-bounces at bioinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Eric  
> Martz
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:06 PM
> To: molvis-list at bioinformatics.org
> Subject: [Molvis-list] Chemistry For All (Nature, Murray-Rust)
>
> Higly recommended, in the current issue of Nature
> (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7179/full/451648a.html ):
> Peter Murray-Rust's ambitious and inspiring vision of the future of
> free exchange of, and wide access to scientific information,
> particularly in chemistry. The "emerging world of e-science or
> cyberscholarship" which "seeks to develop the tools, content, and
> social attitudes to support multidisciplinary, collaborative
> science". Many fascinating and promising initiatives are mentioned,
> including Blue Obelisk (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16711717 )
> (http://blueobelisk.org ), an on-line community that encourages
> openness in chemistry, and the Jmol community. The article includes a
> screenshot of Jmol within the CrystalEye resource
> (http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk/crystaleye/ ), which provides open data
> (http://www.opendefinition.org/ ) for crystallographic information
> and coordinates on chemical compounds. A number of exciting projects
> are mentioned, including DBpedia, greasemonkey, and the Nature
> Publishing Group-provided discussion forums for open science in the
> virtual reality world Second Life.
>
>
>
> ----
> Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology
> University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA US
> http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz
>
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