title: The Blue Obelisk-interoperability in chemical informatics.
abstract: The Blue Obelisk Movement (http://www.blueobelisk.org/) is the name used by a diverse Internet group promoting reusable chemistry via open source software development, consistent and complimentary chemoinformatics research, open data, and open standards. We outline recent examples of cooperation in the Blue Obelisk group: a shared dictionary of algorithms and implementations in chemoinformatics algorithms drawing from our various software projects; a shared repository of chemoinformatics data including elemental properties, atomic radii, isotopes, atom typing rules, and so forth; and Web services for the platform-independent use of chemoinformatics programs.
authors.affiliation: Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16804-3000, Jmol Project, USA.
authors.forename: Rajarshi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Guha
authors.forename: Michael T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Howard
authors.forename: Geoffrey R
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Hutchison
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Murray-Rust
authors.forename: Henry
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Rzepa
authors.forename: Christoph
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Steinbeck
authors.forename: Jörg
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wegner
authors.forename: Egon L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Willighagen
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D055598:Chemical Phenomena; D002621:Chemistry; D048088:Informatics; D020407:Internet; D012984:Software