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

[Gorga, Frank]

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)."

;-)

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Frank R. Gorga, Ph.D.
Professor
Dept. of Chemical Sciences
Bridgewater State College
508-531-2827 / fgorga at bridgew.edu


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[mailto:molvis-list-bounces at bioinformatics.org] On Behalf Of Eric Martz
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 12:06 PM
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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.



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Eric Martz, Professor Emeritus, Dept Microbiology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA US
http://www.umass.edu/molvis/martz


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