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Open Notebook Science and Malaria: Chemists Without Borders presentation
Chemists Without Borders is featuring a talk by Drexel University's Jean-Claude Bradley on Open Notebook Science and Malaria, Thursday, September 6, 2007 at 5pm British Summer Time (if you're as useless as me, look up the local time).
Jean-Claude Bradley is an Associate Professor of Chemistry and E-Learning Coordinator for the College of Arts and Sciences at Drexel University. He leads the UsefulChem project, an initiative started in the summer of 2005 to make the scientific process as transparent as possible by publishing all research work in real time to a collection of public blogs, wikis and other web pages. Contributors to UsefulChem include Chemistry Central Journal editorial board members Jeremy Frey and Mat Todd.
The term Open Notebook Science was coined by Bradley to distinguish this approach from other more restricted forms of Open Science. The main chemistry objective of the UsefulChem project is currently the synthesis and testing of novel anti-malarial agents. The cheminformatics component aims to interface as much of the research work as possible with autonomous agents to automate the scientific process in novel ways.
The event is free, to register visit the Chemists Without Borders website.
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