{"id":14472,"date":"2011-01-29T13:41:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-29T18:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=14472"},"modified":"2011-01-29T13:45:59","modified_gmt":"2011-01-29T18:45:59","slug":"crowdsourcing-chemistry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2011\/01\/29\/crowdsourcing-chemistry\/","title":{"rendered":"Crowdsourcing Chemistry"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Crowdsourcing<\/a><\/p>\n

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Google Tech Talk
\nApril 6, 2010<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABSTRACT<\/strong>
\nPresented by Dr Matthew Todd, School of Chemistry, University of Sydney.<\/p>\n

Science shaped itself in the founding days of learned societies: individuals or teams competed, in secret, with paper-based communication in subscription journals. Why are we all still doing science like this?<\/span><\/strong> The internet has had a major impact in our sharing of data by traditional means, but it has not yet radically changed the way we actually perform science.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s a list of the projects mentioned in the video:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Praziquantel<\/a> is being used in the treatment of schistosomiasis<\/a>, a parasitic infection spread by freshwater snails in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

The Gates Foundation<\/a> is funding an operational research program \u2013 SCORE<\/a> to control and eliminate Neglected Tropical Diseases.<\/a><\/p>\n

This operates out of Imperial College<\/a>, London and is led by Professor Alan Fenwick<\/a> OBE.<\/p>\n

The Cathedral<\/a> model is where a professor and students conduct funded research to develop a solution whereas the Bazaar model invites other people to collaborate in an Open source way to develop a solution.\u00a0Firefox<\/a>, Chrome<\/a>, Wikipedia<\/a> are all Bazaar models.<\/p>\n

Open Science<\/a> involves publishing in real time and letting people respond as they see fit and then collaborate in real time.<\/p>\n

The UsefulChem Project<\/a> led by the Jean Claude Bradley<\/a> at Drexel University<\/a> \u2013 aimed at producing molecules that will be used to treat malaria.\u00a0 Bradley is a proponent of and practises Open Notebook Science<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Open Source Drug Discovery:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.osdd.net\/<\/a> \u2013 OSDD is a\u00a0CSIR Team India Consortium with Global Partnership<\/em> with a vision to provide affordable healthcare to the developing world.<\/p>\n

Open WetWare:\u00a0 http:\/\/openwetware.org\/wiki\/OpenWetWare:About<\/a> \u2013 OpenWetWare<\/a> is an effort to promote the sharing of information, know-how, and wisdom among researchers and groups who are working in biology & biological engineering.<\/p>\n

The Open Dinosaur Project:\u00a0 http:\/\/opendino.wordpress.com\/<\/a> (founded to involve scientists and the public alike in developing a comprehensive database of dinosaur limb bone).<\/p>\n

Chemspider:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.chemspider.com\/<\/a> \u2013 ChemSpider<\/a> links together compound information across the web, providing free text and structure search access of millions of chemical structures.<\/p>\n

Foldit<\/a> is a revolutionary new computer game enabling you to contribute to important scientific research.<\/p>\n

NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information<\/a>): http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/<\/a> \u2013 advances science and health by providing access to biomedical and genomic information.<\/p>\n

GenBank<\/a>:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/genbank\/<\/a> \u2013 is the NIH genetic sequence database, an annotated collection of all publicly available DNA sequences.<\/p>\n

The Tropical Disease Initiative<\/a> aims to apply an open-source collaborative approach to biological and medical research for tropical diseases.<\/p>\n

The Synaptic Leap<\/a>:\u00a0 \u2013 Open Source Biomedical Research.<\/p>\n

Stack Overflow<\/a> allows you to post code and ask for help on a problem.<\/p>\n

Chempedia<\/a> is a free service for uniquely identifying and naming chemical substances.<\/p>\n

CML<\/a> (Chemical Markup Language<\/a>) is an open standard for representing molecular and other chemical data.\u00a0 It includes XML Schema<\/a>, source code for working with CML data, and was devised by\u00a0 Peter Murray-Rust<\/a> who worked with Microsoft<\/a> to develop a Chem Word Add-in<\/a> enabling a Word document to be searched and the chemical information in it to be automatically annotated and extracted.\u00a0 When you hover over a word, you get a structure and you can change the structure.<\/p>\n

Chemicalize.org<\/a> –\u00a0 \u00a0a public web resource developed by ChemAxon<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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