[Hplusroadmap] Fwd: [Molvis-list] Chemistry For All (Nature, Murray-Rust)

[Bryan Bishop]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Dan Bolser wrote:
>  http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v451/n7179/full/451648a.html

Basically, check out:
http://blueobelisk.sourceforge.net/wiki/Main_Page

The article also mentions BarCamps/Foo Camps/hackathons, so that's 
interesting stuff too that I have been attempting to arrange in the 
Austin area, but there's one line in the article that strikes me as 
oblivious: ""the web is almost infinite". Are we going to be creating a 
religious group with the belief in the infinity of cyberspace? ;) 
Doubtful.

 http://wwmm.ch.cam.ac.uk
 http://blueobelisk.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
 http://cb.openmolecules.net
 http://www.okfn.org
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_chemistry_topics

As much as I like all of this open data information, it pains me to see 
that there are not many open hardware projects to make analytical 
chemistry easier. Maybe we can set up that information on the biohack 
wiki and contribute? I have a page on my website which begins to 
explore the wonderful world of scientific instrumentation, if anybody 
wants to have a go at converting it into a wiki format, see:

http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/html2wiki/
http://heybryan.org/instrumentation/instru.html

These tools are incredibly important to doing anything. There's no way 
that you are going to be able to contribute to this data or check this 
data without getting the tools. First, always check ebay, ubid, the 
government liquidation services, everything. There's always a few 
pieces of ancient labtech that you can go salvage. Second, there's 
dirt-cheap ways of building all of these tools. On the page I link to 
many STM projects. There's also interferometers, MRI machines, rTMS, 
spectrometers made out of CDs, diagnostic lasers (thanks Sam), etc. 
This *can* be done -- and it can easily complement these open chemistry 
movements.

I got it started:

http://biohack.sf.net/wiki/index.php/Instrumentation

- Bryan (coming down with the flu)
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Bryan Bishop
http://heybryan.org/