[BlueObelisk-discuss] Fwd: [CHMINF-L] Prize for best open source cheminformatic tool, part of the Lausanne Workshop on Chemical Information

[Egon Willighagen]

Hi all,

I had not seen anything about the below contest... but looks interesting!

Egon

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From: Dietrich Rordorf / MDPI <***@mdpi.com>
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM
Subject: [CHMINF-L] Prize for best open source cheminformatic tool,
part of the Lausanne Workshop on Chemical Information
To: chminf-***@list.indiana.edu


Dear Colleagues,

A short reminder regarding the contest for open source cheminformatic
tools and apps. The competition is still open for participation.

The winner/winning team will be warded a prize of 2’000 CHF (Swiss
Francs), which is about 2'200 USD. The competition is also open to
students/graduates.

The winner of the contest will be invited to present his/her tool at
the Workshop on Chemical Information at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
on 12 September 2014 [1], where the prize will also be awarded (or if
unable to travel to the workshop as a video lecture or as a paper).

In order to enter the competition, the source code has to be available
in an open source format (for instance on a platform like Github).
A 1 to 2 pages short paper describing the software tool should be
submitted to the special issue in the journal Challenges [2] before the
15 August 2014 and will be published in the journal Challenges after
editorial review.

[1] http://cheminformatics.epfl.ch/workshop/index.shtml
[2] http://www.mdpi.com/journal/challenges/special_issues/cheminformatic_tool_contest

If you have question about this contest, please e-mail
***@epfl.ch.

On behalf of Dr. Luc Patiny,
Organizer of the Workshop

Kind regards,
Dietrich Rordorf

*MDPI AG* - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Klybeckstrassse 64
CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. [phone] (office)
Tel. [phone] (mobile)
E-mail: ***@mdpi.com <mailto:***@mdpi.com>
http://www.mdpi.com/

[Noel O'Boyle]

Nice, but note the casual redefinition of open source.

- Noel

Post by Egon Willighagen
Hi all,
I had not seen anything about the below contest... but looks interesting!
Egon
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 3:27 PM
Subject: [CHMINF-L] Prize for best open source cheminformatic tool,
part of the Lausanne Workshop on Chemical Information
Dear Colleagues,
A short reminder regarding the contest for open source cheminformatic
tools and apps. The competition is still open for participation.
The winner/winning team will be warded a prize of 2’000 CHF (Swiss
Francs), which is about 2'200 USD. The competition is also open to
students/graduates.
The winner of the contest will be invited to present his/her tool at
the Workshop on Chemical Information at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
on 12 September 2014 [1], where the prize will also be awarded (or if
unable to travel to the workshop as a video lecture or as a paper).
In order to enter the competition, the source code has to be available
in an open source format (for instance on a platform like Github).
A 1 to 2 pages short paper describing the software tool should be
submitted to the special issue in the journal Challenges [2] before the
15 August 2014 and will be published in the journal Challenges after
editorial review.
[1] http://cheminformatics.epfl.ch/workshop/index.shtml
[2]
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/challenges/special_issues/cheminformatic_tool_contest
If you have question about this contest, please e-mail
On behalf of Dr. Luc Patiny,
Organizer of the Workshop
Kind regards,
Dietrich Rordorf
*MDPI AG* - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Klybeckstrassse 64
CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland
Tel. [phone] (office)
Tel. [phone] (mobile)
http://www.mdpi.com/
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Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT
Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/)
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[Andrew Dalke]

Post by Noel O'Boyle
Nice, but note the casual redefinition of open source.
- Noel

Because of this thread, I sent an email to the organizer for clarification.

A bit of background to start off:

This workshop in cheminformatics is relatively small, between
30 and 50 people that meets for over 10 years now. Among them
main contributors are Igor Tetko (neural network property
prediction), Peter Ertl (jme applet) and Thomas Sanders
(webreactions and property explorer).

Regarding open source, their main criteria are that the software source be available at no cost from a web site, and be available for review, so that people can get "a chance to learn from the source code."

They will accept software "even if you are not allowed to redistribute, embed, use for commercial application, ..." it. For example, they will accept a 'non-commercial use only' license.

I think it's fair to say they allow open source *and* shared source (a la Microsoft) except not allow "free software for a fee".

It sounds like a nice workshop. The program is at:

http://cheminformatics.epfl.ch/workshop/20140912program.shtml



Andrew
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