Affiliations: Indiana University School of Informatics, Bloomington,
IN, USA | Indiana University Department of Chemistry and School
of Informatics, Bloomington, IN, USA | Indiana University Pervasive Technology Laboratories,
Community Grids Lab, Bloomington, IN, USA
Note: [] Ccorresponding author: Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University
School of Informatics, Department of Computer Science, Department of Physics,
Pervasive Technology Laboratories, Community Grids Lab, 501 N. Morton, Showers
224, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA. Tel.: +1 812 856 7977; Fax: +1 812 856 797;
E-mail: [email protected]
Abstract: Some of the latest trends in cheminformatics, computation, and the
world wide web are reviewed with predictions of how these are likely to impact
the field of cheminformatics in the next five years. The vision and some of the
work of the Chemical Informatics and Cyberinfrastructure Collaboratory at
Indiana University are described, which we base around the core concepts of
e-Science and cyberinfrastructure that have proven successful in other fields.
Our chemical informatics cyberinfrastructure is realized by building a
flexible, generic infrastructure for cheminformatics tools and databases,
exporting "best of breed" methods as easily-accessible web APIs for
cheminformaticians, scientists, and researchers in other disciplines, and
hosting a unique chemical informatics education program aimed at scientists and
cheminformatics practitioners in academia and industry.
