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ACS: Open to ideas

It’s the first day of the ACS meeting in a bakingly hot Washington DC, so I decided to dip my toes into the cool waters of chemoinformatics. One of my favourite talks was by Jean-Claude Bradley, who provided an update on his work using open notebooks. Jean-Claude points out that one of the advantages of Open Data is the way that it allows quick validation of results – because there’s no filtering of the data, then it’s easy for anyone to scrutinize any unusual observations. What’s more, if your data disagree with someone else’s, then it’s possible to work out what might have been done differently, potentially leading to useful new discoveries along the way. 

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