Challenges "Chemoinformatics Tool of the Year Contest" award presentation.

1. Chemoinformatics
Tool of the Year Contest
2014
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2. Chemoinformatics –Tool of the Year Contest
Initiated by Dr. Luc Patiny in collaboration with the MDPI open access journal Challenges.
The aim is to support open source development in the area of chemoinformatics.
Conditions of Participation:
1)submitted projects must be licensed under a typical open source license; and
2)the source codemust be available online (e.g. on Github)

3. 1stPrize
The first prize is awarded to Norman Pelletfor his open source project jsGraphsand jsNMR– Advanced Scientific Charting.
These two javascriptprojects present advanced charting capabilities that do not only allow to display data with error bars in various formats, but also feature annotations, spectra display and assignment.
Examples and the source code are available at:
•jsgraph.org
•github.com/NPellet/jsNMR
Prize Money1’500 CHF

4. Prize Money
500 CHF
2ndPrize
The second prize is awarded to John Overingtonand his team for their projects ChEMBLBeaker: A lightweight web framework providing robust and extensible cheminformaticsservices and myChEMBL: a virtual machine implementation of open data and cheminformaticstools.
These great projects set up fundamentals for online cheminformaticsservices and sharing bioactivity data.
The source codes are available at:
•github.com/mnowotka/chembl_beaker
•github.com/chembl/mychembl

5. We would like to cordiallycongratulate the prize recipients.
...and thanks to everyone else whoparticipated in this contest!
Chemoinformatics
Tool of the Year Contest
2014

6. The journal Challenges(mdpi.com/journal/challenges) will publisha special issue dedicated to this contest and the symposium on chemoinfomartics.
Everyone is invited to submit a short paper describing their software tools or their work presented on this symposium.
One page software descriptions with source code available online will be published after editorial review. Short papers about work presented on this symposium will be peer-refereed.
Challenges is an open access journal. The page charges are fully waivedfor papers submitted to this special issue.

7. For submission of manuscripts and further information, see:
http://bit.ly/1tn7R6A