In 2010 Samuel Lampa and I started a pet project: collecting pKa data: he was working on RDF extension of MediaWiki and I like consuming RDF data. We started DrugMet. When you read this post, this MediaWiki installation may already be down, which is why I am migrating the data to Wikidata. Why? Because data curation takes effort, I like to play with Wikidata (see this H2020 proposal by Daniel Mietchen et al.), I like Open Data (see ), and it still much needed.

We opted for a page with the minimal amount of information. To maximize the speed at which we could add information. However, when it came to semantics, we tried to be as explicit as possible, and, e.g. use the CHEMINF ontology.

Practice is that many cite webpages for the software, sometimes even just list the name. I do not understand why scholars do not en masse look up the research papers that are associated with the software. As a reviewer of research papers I often have to advice authors to revise their manuscript accordingly, but I think this is something that should be caught by the journal itself. Fact is, not all reviewers seem to check this.

Last week the huge, bi-annual ACS meeting took place (#ACSSanDiego), during which commonly new drug (leads) are disclosed. This time too, like this one tweeted by Bethany Halford:

CORRECTION This is @genentech's Btk inhibitor. I got a pyridine N in the wrong spot. MEDI #ACSSanDiego #sigh pic.twitter.com/TscaMzPTlW

— Bethany Halford (@beth_halford) March 17, 2016 Because getting this information out in the open is important, I think it's a good idea to add them to Wikidata (see doi:10.3897/rio.
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This blog deals with chemblaics in the broader sense. Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields. The big difference between chemblaics and areas such as chem(o)?informatics, chemometrics, computational chemistry, etc, is that chemblaics only uses open source software, open data, and open standards, making experimental results reproducible and validatable. And this is a big difference!
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