I value ODOSOS \nvery high: they are a key component of science, and scientific research,\nthough not every scientist sees these importance yet. I strongly believe that scientific progress is held back because of scientific\nresults not being open; it’s putting us back into the days of alchemy, where experiments were like black boxes and procedures kept\nsecretly. It was not until the alchemists started to properly write down procedures that it, as a science, took off. Now, with\nchemoinformatics in mind, we have the opportunity to write down our procedures in high detail.
\n\nI keep wondering what the state of drug research would be, if the previous generation of chemoinformaticians would have valued ODOSOS\nas much as I do. Now, with a close relative being diagnosed last week with a form of cancer with low five-year survival rates, I cannot\nget more angry about those who want to make (unreasonable) money by selling scientific research. A 1M bonus is unreasonable.\nI can have 10 post-docs work on chemoinformatics research for the same period; I can have them work on drug design for various\nkinds of cancer.
\n\nTherefore, I will continue to use every opportunity to convince people of ODOSOS, and will continue to develop new methods to improve\naccurate exchange of scientific data and experimental results. I will help people where I can to distribute open data, even if the\nwhole project is not 100% ODOSOS. For example, the Chemistry Development Kit \nis open source itself (LGPL) which\ndoes allow embedding into proprietary software. This does not mean that I will contribute to the proprietary software, and actually\nam proud not having done so in the last 10 years.
\n\nI will continue to advice people how to make their work more ODOSOS, even if they cannot make the full transition. I will also continue\nto make sure that all my scientific results are ODOSOS, as there is no other kind of science. To set a good example, and, hopefully,\nto lead the way.
\n\nThis is why I am a proud member of the Blue Obelisk.
", "summary": "I value ODOSOS very high: they are a key component of science, and scientific research, though not every scientist sees these importance yet. I strongly believe that scientific progress is held back because of scientific results not being open; it’s putting us back into the days of alchemy, where experiments were like black boxes and procedures kept secretly. It was not until the alchemists started to properly write down procedures that it, as a science, took off. Now, with chemoinformatics in mind, we have the opportunity to write down our procedures in high detail.", "date_published": "2007-10-14T00:00:00+00:00", "date_modified": "2025-03-08T00:00:00+00:00", "tags": ["openscience","blue-obelisk","opendata","opensource"], "authors": [ { "name": "Egon Willighagen", "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7542-0286" } ] } ] }