Less than a week left before the three ACS RDF 2010 sessions! I am both nervous and excited! We really got a great team of speakers together. As a final call for people still not sure if they want to attend, I sent out a few emails. On Monday, we are competing with the big JCIM 50th anniversary, but really, that it’s 50 years of old cheminformatics, where our session is about the next 50 year. Your call ;) I was told the meetings are in two rooms along side, so you should be able to see a bit of both.

Besides the really interesting list of chemical domains covered in these talks (see below), this meeting, though I have not advertised it as such, is really about Open Standards in cheminformatics. This is what I just wrote to the Blue Obelisk mailing list (:

Dear ACS-Boston 2010 participants,

with this email I would like to ask your attention to the three Semantic Web sessions on Sunday morning, and Monday morning and afternoon. During these sessions 15 presentations will be given on how the Resource Description Framework is changing cheminformatics.

It is of special interest to the Blue Obelisk community that the family of RDF technologies (RDF, OWL, SPARQL) are all successful Open Standards, building on older and other Open Standards like HTTP, URI, XML (or JSON or Notation3 or Turtle), etc.

Moreover, these technologies are not restricted to one particular domain, such as MDL/Symyx molfile, CML(XXX) are, as this part is covered by the Web Ontology Language (OWL)… each ontology in itself can be (and should ofcourse) be an Open Standard.

In three sessions links to computational chemistry, knowledge management, and general applications are demonstrated, with wide variety of chemical disciplines as context, including toxicology, chemometrics, eScience, databases, wet lab experimentation, lipidomics, text mining, drug discovery and health care, gene-disease-pathway modeling, and chemical patents.

All people interested in Open Cheminformatics should have a special interest in these three sessions, and I am very much looking forward to seeing you all next Sunday and/or Monday!

The full program can be found at:

http://egonw.github.com/acsrdf2010/

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with kind regards,

Egon Willighagen

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