Chemical Semantics

Applying The Semantic Web to Computational Chemistry

“The Semantic Web is a web of data and is about two things. It is about common formats for integration and combination of data drawn from diverse sources, where the original Web mainly concentrated on the interchange of documents. It is also about language for recording how the data relates to real world objects. That allows a person, or a machine, to start off in one database, and then move through an unending set of databases which are connected not by wires but by being about the same thing.” – W3C Semantic Web Activity

What is the Principal Idea?

Create publishing software that allows scientist, principally computational chemists and biochemists, to publish their data in a semantic (knowledge base) fashion.

Create client agent software that allows these scientists to search the world for relevant scientific results using inference to create new results from the existing global data.

Who are the People Involved?

Mirek Sopek, PhD – founder, 1989, of MakoLab S.A. (www.makolab.com). MakoLab is a public company in Poland with extensive experience in web design, business software, and recently the semantic web.

Neil Ostlund, PhD – founder, 1985, of Hypercube, Inc. (www.hyper.com). Hypercube, is a Canadian Company, that is a leader in molecular modeling software. It has dealers in 35 countries selling its HyperChem product.

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