Blue Obelisk
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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]
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| Formation | 2005 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Peter Murray-Rust |
| Membership | 23+ |
Official language | English |
| Budget | zero |
| Website | http://www.blueobelisk.org/ |
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)