© S.J. Coles 2005 eChemInfo2005 Open Archives as a Route for Capture, Dissemination and Access to Chemical Data and Information Simon Coles School of Chemistry, University of Southampton, U.K.
© S.J. Coles 2005 eChemInfo2005 Data – Information – Knowledge Experiment Structure - Property, Prediction Model
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© S.J. Coles 2005 eChemInfo2005 Harvesting & Aggregating: Google Coles, S.J., Day, N.E., Murray-Rust, P., Rzepa, H.S., Zhang, Y., Org. Biomol. Chem., 2005, (10), DOI: /b502828k /b502828k
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© S.J. Coles 2005 eChemInfo2005 Take-Home Message “The internet wasn't created for mockery! It was created so scientists from different universities could share datasets....” Simpson, H. The Simpsons (2005), Eds. Groening, M., Brooks, J.L. & Simon, S., Series 16, Episode 8, Original air date (US) 06-Feb