Chemistry in bioinformatics.
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Authors
Murray-Rust, Peter
Mitchell, John BO
Rzepa, Henry S
Abstract
Chemical information is now seen as critical for most areas of life sciences. But unlike Bioinformatics, where data is openly available and freely re-usable, most chemical information is closed and cannot be re-distributed without permission. This has led to a failure to adopt modern informatics and software techniques and therefore paucity of chemistry in bioinformatics. New technology, however, offers the hope of making chemical data (compounds and properties) free during the authoring process. We argue that the technology is already available; we require a collective agreement to enhance publication protocols.
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Keywords
Access to Information, Chemistry, Computational Biology, Databases as Topic, Databases, Factual, Information Storage and Retrieval, Internet, Publishing, Software, Systems Integration, User-Computer Interface
Journal Title
BMC Bioinformatics
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Journal ISSN
1471-2105
1471-2105
1471-2105
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Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC