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5th Meeting on U.S. Government Chemical Databases and Open Chemistry

The 5th Meeting on U.S. Government Chemical Databases and Open Chemistry takes place in Maryland, USA on 25th and 26th August, and the scientific program should be of particular interest to readers of Journal of Cheminformatics.

The meeting will bring together people dealing with small-molecule databases and associated data sets at various U.S. Government agencies, as well as other experts and contributors to public resources in the fields of cheminformatics and chemical databases. Several of the speakers feature on the Editorial Board of Journal of Cheminformatics, including Martin Walker, who will discuss the validation of chemical data on Wikipedia, and Jean-Claude Bradley, who along with Andrew Lang will present their work on collection, curation and modelling of open melting point measurements.

Other notable presentations include “Improving the quality of chemical databases with community-developed tools (and vice versa)” from Noel O’Boyle, and “PubChem: A significant resource for scientists” from Evan Bolton – author of the PubChem3D thematic series.

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