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Blue Obelisk

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Formation
  
2005

Membership
  
23+

Budget
  
zero

Founder
  
Peter Murray-Rust

Official language
  
English

Blue Obelisk

Website
  
http://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. 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, and UsefulChem.

The project has handed out personal awards for achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Among those who received 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 (2010)
  • Nina Jeliazkova (2010)
  • Henry Rzepa (2011)
  • Dan Zaharevitz (2011)
  • Sam Adams (2011)
  • Jens Thomas (2011)
  • Marcus Hanwell (2011)
  • 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)

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