Blue Obelisk informal group of chemists by Peter Murray-Rust who promote open data, open source, and open standards; it was initiated by Peter Murray-Rust

http://www.blueobelisk.org/
https://sourceforge.net/p/blueobelisk/bowiki/Main_Page/

Formation	2005
Founder	Peter Murray-Rust
Membership	23+
Official language	English
Budget	zero

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]

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:

• Christoph Steinbeck (2006)
• Geoff Hutchinson (2006)
• Bob Hanson (2006),
• Egon Willighagen (2007)
• Jean-Claude Bradley (2007)
• Ola Spjuth (2007)
• Noel O'Boyle (2010)
• Rajarshi Guha (2010)
• Cameron Neylon (2010)
• Alex Wade^[7] (2010)
• Nina Jeliazkova (2010)
• Henry Rzepa (2011)
• Dan Zaharevitz (2011)
• Sam Adams (2011)
• Jens Thomas (2011)
• Marcus Hanwell (2011)
• Roger Sayle (2011) ^[8]
• the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (2012)
• Saulius Gražulis (2014)
• Antony Williams (2014)
• Daniel Lowe (2014)
• Andrew Lang (2014)
• Matthew Todd (2014)
• WikiChemists (2014)
• Greg Landrum (2016)
• Mark Forster (2016)
• John Mayfield (2017)

See also

• Cheminformatics

References

1. 
   

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. PMID 16711717. doi:10.1021/ci050400b.

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. PMC 3205042 . PMID 21999342. doi:10.1186/1758-2946-3-37.

"OpenSMILES Home Page".

"UsefulChem - home".

"The Blue Obelisk / Blue Obelisk Wiki / Blue_Obelisk_Awards".

"Alex D. Wade - Microsoft Research".

8. "NextMove Software / News".

External links

• Official website
• Twitter account

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Welcome to BlueObelisk.org

The Internet has brought together a group of chemists/programmers/informaticians who are driven by wanting to do things better, but are frustrated with the Closed systems that chemists currently have to work with. They share a belief in the concepts of Open Data, Open Standards and Open Source ([ODOSOS]) (but not necessarily Open Access). And they express this in code, data, algorithms, specifications, tutorials, demonstrations, articles and anything that helps get the message across.

• [Members] Who we are (and how to join)
• [Activities] What we are doing
• [Mailing_List] Ask a question, keep up to date, or get involved
• Blue Obelisk eXchange Ask a question, read answers
• [Blue_Obelisk_Blogs] Member's blogs
• [Blue_Obelisk_Meetings] Come to a meeting
• [Blue_Obelisk_Awards]

Links to other resources of interest can be found here.

Publications

For more information, see:

• The Blue Obelisk, CDK News, 2005, 2, 43-46,
• The Blue Obelisk - Interoperability in Chemical Informatics, J. Chem. Inf. Model., 2006, 46, 991-998, and
• Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards in chemistry: The Blue Obelisk five years on, J. Cheminformatics, 2011, 3, 37.

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Blue Obelisk Wiki: Activities
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Blue_Obelisk_Awards
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Blue_Obelisk_Blogs
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Blue_Obelisk_Meetings
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Mailing_List
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Members
Blue Obelisk Wiki: ODOSOS
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Open_Data
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Open_Source
Blue Obelisk Wiki: Open_Standards