chemcuration2019

ChemCuration 2019

ChemCuration (#chemcur2019) is a a one day, online-only conference around data curation and curated data in the domain of chemistry. Inspired by BioCuration and by other online conferences, this year will mark the first edition of a Twitter-based online poster conference. During the day, you will tweet your poster with the meeting hashtag and respond to questions about the poster in the 24 hours after your tweet. The poster must be available in an online repository (e.g. Zenodo or Figshare) under the CCZero, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA license.

The meeting scope: anything around data curation and curated data of open science data in chemistry. This includes but is not limited to:

• a new release of curated open data
• FAIR metadata around open data
• open source tools for data curation

Date and Venue

ChemCuration 2019 took place in on Tuesday December 3 2019. The venue is Twitter [1].

Poster Award

The poster announcement:

With great pleasure we hand out the ChemCuration 2019 Poster Award to the poster with the title Crystallography Open Database – data curation experiences by Saulius Gražulis (presenter), Andrius Merkys, and Antanas Vaitkus.

According to the evaluation, their poster "crystallizes" the approach that COD has taken over 16 years to deliver access to Open Crystallographic Data. The poster is the best example of sharing code, broad access to a large data collection (>400,000 structures) and their approach to BOTH automated and manual data review and curation. Moreover, the presenting author was eager to answer questions and discuss their work on Twitter.

Posters

• Christopher Southan: Desperately seeking curated D-A-R-C-P: Assessing the past to predict the future. Poster, Discussion
• Gitanjali Yadav: Chemical Curation of Lantana Camara Emissions across Native and Invaded Habitats. Poster, Discussion
• Peter Murray-Rust: CEVOpen: Can machines curate the Open phytochemistry literature. Poster, Discussion
• Charles N. Lowe: Development of a Water Solubility Dataset to Establish Best Practices for Curating New Datasets for QSAR Modeling. Poster, Discussion
• Karel Berka: MolMeDB: Molecules on Membranes Database. Poster, Discussion
• Saulius Gražulis: Crystallography Open Database – data curation experiences. Poster, Discussion

This is also available on Wikidata/Scholia as an interactive proceedings page.

Conference Organisers

• Egon Willighagen, @egonwillighagen, 0000-0001-7542-0286, Maastricht University (ROR:02jz4aj89)
• Emma Schymanski, @ESchymanski, 0000-0001-6868-8145, University of Luxembourg (ROR:036x5ad56)
• Justin J.J. van der Hooft, @jjjvanderhooft, 0000-0002-9340-5511, Wageningen Universtiy and Research (ROR:04qw24q55)

Scientific Committee

• Antony Williams, @ChemConnector, 0000-0002-2668-4821, US Environmental Protection Agency (ROR:03tns0030)
• Steffen Neumann, @sneumannoffice, 0000-0002-7899-7192, Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry (ROR:01mzk5576)
• Christopher Southan, @cdsouthan, 0000-0001-9580-0446, TW2Informatics

References

1. Ekins S, Perlstein EO. Ten simple rules of live tweeting at scientific conferences. PLoS computational biology. 2014 Aug;10(8):e1003789+. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1003789