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  "description": "Chemblaics (pronounced chem-bla-ics) is the science that uses open science and computers to solve problems in chemistry, biochemistry and related fields.",
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      "name": "Egon Willighagen",
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      "url": "https://chem-bla-ics.linkedchemistry.info/2006/12/06/power-of-big-numbers.html",
      "title": "The power of big numbers",
      "content_html": "<p>Contributions to open data do not have to be large, as long as many people are doing it. The\n<a href=\"http://wikipedia.org/\">Wikipedia</a> is a good example, and <a href=\"http://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/\">PubChem</a>\naccepts contributions of small databases too (I think). The result can still be large and rather useful, even scientifically.</p>\n\n<p>The latter was recently written down in the paper <em>Internet-based monitoring of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the general\npopulation of the Netherlands during the 2003–2004 influenza season</em> by Marquet et al. (DOI:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-242\">10.1186/1471-2458-6-242</a>).\nThe data was provided by Internet users via <a href=\"http://www.degrotegriepmeting.nl/\">The Great Influenza Survey</a> website. The article states that\nthe sum of all those small contributions (anonymous website users are asked to fill out a weekly form), yields reliable data. The user is\nrewarded by colorful pictures, such as:</p>\n\n<p><img src=\"/assets/images/alles_2006-12-06.png\" alt=\"\" /></p>\n\n<p>If all chemists and biochemists would add information about or properties of one molecule or metabolite to the Wikipedia each month,\none or more commercial database companies will have to change their business model soon. Oh, you already can start doing this\n<a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Chemistry\">here</a>.</p>\n\n\n<h4>References</h4>\n<div class=\"csl-bib-body\">\n    <div class=\"csl-entry\">Marquet, R. L., Bartelds, A. I., van Noort, S. P., Koppeschaar, C. E., Paget, J., Schellevis, F. G., &#38; van der Zee, J. (2006). Internet-based monitoring of influenza-like illness (ILI) in the general population of the Netherlands during the 2003–2004 influenza season. <i>BMC Public Health</i>, <i>6</i>(1). https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-242 <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-242\">CrossRef</a> <a href=\"https://qlever.scholia.wiki/doi/10.1186/1471-2458-6-242\">Scholia</a></div>\n  </div>",
      "summary": "Contributions to open data do not have to be large, as long as many people are doing it. The Wikipedia is a good example, and PubChem accepts contributions of small databases too (I think). The result can still be large and rather useful, even scientifically.",
      
      "date_published": "2006-12-06T00:00:00+00:00",
      "date_modified": "2026-09-26T00:00:00+00:00",
      "tags": ["virus","chemometrics"],
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        "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ]
      
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