Hi all, In August I sent a pre-announcement email about my mmpdb crowdfunding project.
The project is now live, at http://mmpdb.dalkescientific.com/ . The basic idea is that I can commit to developing a few features for mmpdb. • Postgres support, as an alternative to the existing SQLite support; • A new ‘mmpdb proprulecat’ command to export the property rules in the database (transformation details and property statistics of the associated pairs) in CSV form, along with a fragment SMILES for the given environment. Anyone who joins the consortium (at least EUR 1 000 for academics, EUR 5 000 for industry) will get these features under the existing open source license. As more people join, the additional funding will be used to improve mmpdb. All consortium members will get the new improvements. These new features will only be implemented if a certain funding level is reached, for example, with EUR 16 000 in funding I'll add support for storing and using SMILES strings for the environment fragments. To incentivize people to join, I don't plan to release the code to the public until receiving at least EUR 23 000 in funding, in which case I'll release it by 1 October 2020. (Since it's open source, consortium members are also free to distribute the new code.) With EUR 50 000 in funding, I'll release the software to the public as soon as I can. The full list of goals and funding levels is at http://mmpdb.dalkescientific.com/goals.html . I'll be at the RDKit UGM in Hanburg in a couple of days, so if you are there and have questions about it, or about funding open source software in chemformatics (or about chemfp, or SMILES, or many other topics), come talk with me! Cheers, Andrew da...@dalkescientific.com _______________________________________________ Rdkit-discuss mailing list Rdkit-discuss@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rdkit-discuss
