How I failed to do

Open Notebook

Egon Willighagen (@egonwillighagen)

14 July 2014, Jean-Claude Bradley Memorial Symposium

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Department of - BiGCaT 1 Jean-Claude Bradley

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 2 “Open Notebook Science”

First response: jealousy

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 3 How I failed

• I did – Strong focus on reproducibility – Open Source, Open Data, Open Standards (ODOSOS) • I did share notes... • I wrote up the stories (in a blog)...

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 4 Realization

• Scholars need notebooks – They need exact instructions – Just giving the outcome and tools is not enough • This applies to cheminformatics too

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 5 First notes where during education

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 6 ODOSOS

• Software: – The Chemistry Development Kit • based on CompChem, and JchemPaint – , Jmol, ... • Data – Data Repository – RDF translations of knowledge bases • Standards – eNanoMapper ...

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 7 Scribbling...

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 8 Scribbline...

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 9 Scribbline...

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 10 Why important?

• Going back to the original (raw data). • Pedagogical effect • Education (howto's) • Machines care about negative data • If we want to progress, we need to understand not just global patterns, but the fine details too

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 11 Why cheminformatics too?

• Where is the latest RDF of solubility data? Of the melting point data? • The trust problem applies to algorithms as much as data • What if...

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 12 What I have in mind...

WikiPedia, CC-BY-SA, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtin %E2%80%93Hammett_principle

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 13 Possible ONS of cheminformatics

• Is this set of atom types covering ChEBI? • Can we map this metabolomics data to pathways? • How many CAS registry numbers can I resolve for this data set?

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 14 Conclusion

Some patience is needed, but I will start Open Notebook Science.

(And I will push this concept with my Bart and Cristian too.)

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 15 Benchmarking / metrics

Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT 16