Thanks for asking the question Daniel. I was asking the same question about SDF. InChI is definitely Open Source but has not, to the best of my knowledge, been extended and enhanced by the community while it's development has been influenced by a "committee" from the community. This approach has given good results so far but to clarify the number of developers hands is very small. There is very little documentation about InChI as yet but there is an intention to provide a lot more technical detail regarding the code.
Rich has listed FlexMol and other than the blogposts I know very little about community adoption and involvement. It looks flexible and capable but is FlexMol an Open Standard? I saw the AniML documents and sat in on a number of committee meetings at the beginning. AniML was derived, as far as I know, from initial work on GaML, Galactic's markup language....though GAML was to cover Generalized Analytical Markup Language (http://www.gaml.org/). Anyways...great question Daniel.. Best wishes. Antony Williams, URL: www.chemspider.com Email: antony.willi...@chemspider.com Phone: (919) 341-8375 Mobile: (919) 201-1516 Fax: (919) 300-5321 CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE Unless expressly stated otherwise, this message is confidential and is intended for the addressee(s) only. If you are not an addressee, please inform the sender immediately or contact feedb...@chemspider.com. > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Leidert [mailto:daniel.leidert.s...@gmx.net] > Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 4:10 AM > To: Rajarshi Guha; blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > Subject: Re: [Blueobelisk-discuss] Open Standards in cheminformatics > > Rajarshi Guha wrote: > > > Hi, while working on a presentation, I was wondering: are there any > > open standards in cheminformatics? Standard may be too strong a term - > > an alternative might be to ask if there are any open specifications in > > cheminformatics? > > Well, that depens on the definition of "open standard". There is still > no agreed definition (AFAIK). > > > A number of examples come to mind > > > > SDF spec > > SLN spec > > OpenSMILES spec > > For file formats you can check [1]. I tried to collect links to the file > format descriptions together with the file format pattern. > > [1] http://chemical-mime.sourceforge.net/chemical-mime-data.html > > Regards, Daniel > -- > Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: > http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger01 > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > _______________________________________________ > Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list > Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Blueobelisk-discuss mailing list Blueobelisk-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/blueobelisk-discuss
