Blue Obelisk

Blue Obelisk is an informal group of chemists who promote open data, open source, and open standards; it was initiated by Peter Murray-Rust and others in 2005.^[1][2][3] Multiple open source cheminformatics projects associate themselves with the Blue Obelisk, among which, in alphabetical order, Avogadro, Bioclipse, cclib, Chemistry Development Kit, GaussSum, JChemPaint, JOELib, Kalzium, Openbabel, OpenSMILES,^[4] and UsefulChem.^[5]

Dependency diagram of some Blue Obelisk projects.

Blue Obelisk

Formation	2005
Founder	Peter Murray-Rust
Membership	23+
Official language	English
Budget	zero
Website	http://www.blueobelisk.org/

The project has handed out personal awards for achievements in promoting Open Data, Open Source and Open Standards. Among those who received^[6] a Blue Obelisk Award are:

• Christoph Steinbeck (2006)
• Geoff Hutchinson (2006)
• Bob Hanson (2006),
• Egon Willighagen (2007)
• Jean-Claude Bradley (2007)
• Ola Spjuth (2007)
• Noel O'Boyle (2010)
• Rajarshi Guha (2010)
• Cameron Neylon (2010)
• Alex Wade^[7] (2010)
• Nina Jeliazkova (2010)
• Henry Rzepa (2011)
• Dan Zaharevitz (2011)
• Sam Adams (2011)
• Jens Thomas (2011)
• Marcus Hanwell (2011)
• Roger Sayle (2011)^[8]
• the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (2012)
• Saulius Gražulis (2014)
• Antony Williams (2014)
• Daniel Lowe (2014)
• Andrew Lang (2014)
• Matthew H. Todd (2014)
• Greg Landrum (2016)
• Mark Forster (2016)
• John Mayfield (2017)

See also

• Cheminformatics