Dr Peter Murray-Rust
Dr Peter Murray-Rust: Open Access to Science Data
Seminar 3 March 2008
Location: Clayton
Abstract: Dr Murray-Rust will cover a range of topics on the importance of open access to science data, in particular Chemical data. This includes a discussion of data capture methods and data repositories in science departments, and the importance of semantic publications such as eTheses.
Speaker biographies: Dr Murray Rust's research group at Churchill College Cambridge is looking at:
Research in molecular informatics and brings tools from computer science to chemistry, biosciences and earth sciences, integrating humans and machines in managing information. Specifically the group
* has created Chemical Markup Language (CML), an expanding XML
representation of molecular science including molecules, spectra,
reactions, computational chemistry and solid state.
* investigates how computers can be used in communication such as
authoring papers/theses. We work closely with several publishers.
* investigates how the chemical literature can be text-and
data-mined to discover new science from heterogeneous data sources.
* is automating the process of computational chemistry by providing
expert wrappers to major programs. The results will support /in
silico/ prediction of molecular and reaction properties for use in
safety, pharmaceutical design, enzyme processes.
* is part of the UK eScience network and are developing the semantic
Grid for chemistry. This Grid will seamlessly link databases and
services and allow scientists to ask "Google^TM -like" questions
with chemical content.
* is promoting Open source and Open data and are developing a
peer-to-peer system for publishing molecular information at source
so it becomes globally available.
Two links to the work are:
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