Organization:Blue Obelisk

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Blue Obelisk
Formation2005
FounderPeter Murray-Rust
Membership
23+
Official language
English
Budget
zero
Websitehttp://www.blueobelisk.org/

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:

  • Christoph Steinbeck (2006)
  • Geoff Hutchinson (2006)
  • Bob Hanson (2006),
  • Egon Willighagen (2007)
  • Jean-Claude Bradley (2007)[7]
  • Ola Spjuth (2007)
  • Noel O'Boyle (2010)
  • Rajarshi Guha (2010)
  • Cameron Neylon (2010)
  • Alex Wade[8] (2010)
  • Nina Jeliazkova (2010)
  • Henry Rzepa (2011)
  • Dan Zaharevitz (2011)
  • Sam Adams (2011)
  • Jens Thomas (2011)
  • Marcus Hanwell (2011)
  • Roger Sayle (2011)[9]
  • the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (2012)
  • Saulius Gražulis (2014)
  • Antony Williams (2014)
  • Daniel Lowe (2014)
  • Andrew Lang (2014)
  • Matthew H. Todd (2014)
  • Greg Landrum (2016)
  • Mark Forster (2016)
  • John Mayfield (2017)

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