Blue Obelisk is an informal group of chemists who promote open data , open source , and open standards ; it was initiated by Peter Murray-Rust and others in 2005.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3] Multiple open source cheminformatics projects associate themselves with the Blue Obelisk, among which, in alphabetical order, Avogadro , Bioclipse , cclib , Chemistry Development Kit , GaussSum , JChemPaint , JOELib , Kalzium , Openbabel , OpenSMILES ,[ 4] and UsefulChem .[ 5]
Dependency diagram of some Blue Obelisk projects.
The project has handed out personal awards for achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Among those who received[ 6] a Blue Obelisk Award are:
^ P. Murray-Rust, The Blue Obelisk, CDK News , 2005, 2, 43–46
^ Guha, R; Howard, MT; Hutchison, GR; Murray-Rust, P; Rzepa, H; Steinbeck, C; Wegner, J; Willighagen, EL (2006). "The Blue Obelisk-interoperability in chemical informatics" . Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling . 46 (3): 991– 8. doi :10.1021/ci050400b . PMC 4878861 . PMID 16711717 .
^ O'Boyle, N; Guha, R; Willighagen, EL; Adams, SE; Alvarsson, J; Bradley, JC; Filippov, IV; Hanson, RM; Hanwell, MD; Hutchinson, GR; James, CA; Jeliazkova, N; Lang, ASID; Langer, KM; Lonie, DC; Lowe, DM; Pansanel, J; Pavlov, D; Spjuth, O; Steinbeck, C; Tenderholt, AL; Theisen, TJ; Murray-Rust, P (2011). "Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards in chemistry: The Blue Obelisk five years on" . Journal of Cheminformatics . 3 (1): 37. doi :10.1186/1758-2946-3-37 . PMC 3205042 . PMID 21999342 .
^ "OpenSMILES Home Page" .
^ "UsefulChem - home" .
^ "The Blue Obelisk / Blue Obelisk Wiki / Blue_Obelisk_Awards" .
^ "Alex D. Wade" . LinkedIn .
^ "NextMove Software / News" .