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=UsefulChem Project= media type="custom" key="11049" This is an [|Open Notebook Science] project in chemistry led by the Bradley Laboratory at Drexel University. Click on the **Recent Changes** button on the left for our latest work. ([|Bradley talks and some articles on ONS])

Watch a [|recent talk] where the UsefulChem project and Open Notebook Science is discussed in detail. More talks related to this topic are available [|here].
 * 1) [|UsefulChem blog] (reports about project milestones mainly)
 * 2) [|UsefulChem Mailing List] (detailed discussions to get problems solved)
 * 3) [|Molecules blog] (molecules of relevance to our projects) [|substructure search](use [|emolecules.com] to draw molecule and get SMILES) -**//transitioning to [|ChemSpider]//**-The UsefulChem source in ChemSpider is [|here].
 * 4) [|Experiments blog] (lab notebook - old)
 * 5) Contents page (summaries and links to the current lab notebook pages on the wiki)
 * 6) Reference page (key references)
 * 7) [|13 minute screencast] on the big picture and history of UsefulChem
 * 8) Pending Items put items here under brainstorming or todo
 * 9) Experimental Plans
 * 10) Docking Experiments
 * 11) The People of UsefulChem
 * 12) [|Lab Inventory]
 * 13) [|UgiChem2CML]

Gus Rosania

 * 1) 1CellPK Wiki

Cameron Neylon

 * 1) [|Sortase Cloning Blog]

Jeremiah Faith

 * 1) [|Open Laboratory Notebook]

Michael Barton

 * 1) [|Lab blog] (pre-print style)

Kevin Owens

 * 1) MALDI Mass Spectrometry

Shiva

 * 1) Research Proposals Wiki
 * 2) [|Totally Retrosynthetic Blog]

Our Projects

 * 1) Malaria
 * 2) HIV
 * 3) Arsenic
 * 4) NCI anticancer screen
 * 5) Combi Ugi

General ways to contribute

 * 1) Process Molecule Information
 * 2) Automation
 * 3) Donations
 * 4) UsefulChem Writing Partners
 * 5) Undergraduate Orgo Class Assignments

General Laboratory Information

 * 1) [|Chromatography]
 * 2) [|General Orgo Resources] (Black group)
 * 3) [|Spectral Database]
 * 4) [|NMR shift database]
 * 5) [|Shattuck NMR resources] (Colby College)
 * 6) [|Videos on Laboratory Techniques] (U. Alberta)
 * 7) [|Videos on Laboratory Techniques] (MIT)
 * 8) [|Lab Techniques] (CU Boulder)
 * 9) [|Organic Chemistry Resources]
 * 10) [|Organic Division Information]
 * 11) [|Chemical Suppliers Directory]
 * 12) [|Chromatotron Manuals]
 * 13) Getting NMR spectra off the 300 Mz Varian and [|converting] to [|JCAMP]
 * 14) [|Getzler lab resources]

Other Open Source Science Sites (with experimental details)

 * 1) [|Synthetic Pages] (organic protocols)
 * 2) [|OrgPrepDaily] (organic protocols)
 * 3) [|OpenWetWare] [|example of iGEM Lab Notebook] (though no raw data)
 * 4) [|BioRoot](Biomolecule free exchange database)
 * 5) [|ArXiv] (mainly physics, pre-print article format)
 * 6) [|Naboj] (open dynamic reviews of ArXiv)
 * 7) [|PhysicsComments] (blog on physics)
 * 8) [|OrgList] (synthetic organic chemistry mailing list)
 * 9) [|Siphs] (Q & A in life sciences)
 * 10) [|Protocols Online] (bio and biochem protocols)
 * 11) [|Journal Review] (open dynamic reviews of mainly medical related journals)
 * 12) [|Cosmus] (astronomical)
 * 13) [|RRResearch] (molecular biology - discusses current research in some detail)
 * 14) [|Neurodatabase.org] (Neurobiology experiments with raw data)
 * 15) [|ThermoML] (thermodynamic data)

Open Source Science Coordination Sites

 * 1) [|The Synaptic Leap]
 * 2) [|Chemists Without Borders]
 * 3) [|World Community Grid]
 * 4) [|BioForge]
 * 5) [|CODATA]
 * 6) [|ACS Chemical Biology Wiki]
 * 7) [|The OpenScience Project] (software)
 * 8) [|Nodal Point] (bioinformatics blog)
 * 9) [|BiOS]
 * 10) [|MyExperiment]
 * 11) SCIEnCE (collaborative proposals)

Open Source Science General Information

 * 1) [|Michael Nielsen's post on "The Future of Science"]
 * 2) [|Bill Hooker's Open Science Applications article on 3quarksdaily]
 * 3) [|Waldrop Scientific American April 2008 Article on Science 2.0]
 * 4) [|Heather Piwowar's Notes on Open Notebook Science]
 * 5) [|Berkes site]
 * 6) [|Finding Cures for Tropical Diseases - Is Open Source the Answer?]
 * 7) [|Peter Murray-Rust talk on Open Data in Science]
 * 8) [|The Blue Obelisk - Operability in Chemical Informatics]
 * 9) [|Rzepa summary of web 2.0 chemistry]
 * 10) Beth Ritter-Guth's Notes
 * 11) [|Intellectual Property and Legal Implications]
 * 12) [|Rio Framework for Open Science]
 * 13) [|Science Commons]
 * 14) [|AssignmentZero Crowdsourcing] list of projects
 * 15) [|Michael Barton's essay on Open Notebook Science]

Cheminformatics Sites

 * 1) [|ChemBioGrid]
 * 2) [|Marvin conformational analysis]
 * 3) [|ChemSpider]
 * 4) [|The Binding Database]
 * 5) [|Drug|Discovery Links]
 * 6) Validate SMILES with [|DEPICT] or [|here for multiple SMILES]

Related Projects

 * 1) [|Find-A-Drug] (finds molecules that are predicted to inhibit disease related enzymes - some results released by request)
 * 2) [|e-malaria] (similar to Find-A-Drug but run by high school students - results not public, except a few in this [|paper] )

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