OREChem

Principal Investigator:

OREChem explores the Semantic Web for chemistry using the OAI-ORE approach. ORE-Chem shows how several chemistry groups can work together by linking their data through RDF (developed by the World Wide Web Consortium). The project is funded by Microsoft Research and coordinated through Carl Lagoze at Cornell University. There are 4 academic partners who have created an information pipeline for the capture and enrichment of chemical information:

Penn State (extraction of chemistry from documents)
Southampton (formalisation of chemical experiements and further data extraction)
Cambridge (PM-R) adding semantics and computational workflow
Indiana University (very high throughput computing in clouds and grids)

The project aims to show how complete chemical experiments and data can be "understood" by machines and passed automatically down a pipeline (in the order shown). This is one of the largest and most distributed collaborative chemical informatics projects and is serviced by communal software, data and teleconferences.

See: http://journal.webscience.org/112/

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/orechem/

Summary

Research group:

Murray-Rust group

Members:

Dr Nicholas Day

Partners & Collaborators:

Microsoft