Two new open data initiatives

I'll open the post with photos that I took in Seoul last year at the Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP) which was designed by Zaha Hadid (1950-2016) and I'm ashamed to admit to only having become aware of her ten years ago while wandering around the American University of Beirut (she studied mathematics at AUB and much later designed the came across the building that houses Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs).In the two posts that will follow the current post I’ll be taking a look at the OpenBind and OpenADMET initiatives. A key objective of each initiative is to generate large bodies of high-quality data that will be relevant to drug discovery and make these freely available in the public domain. I certainly see massive value in open data and consider it important that vital resources such as ChEMBL and BindingDB be funded generously. As we rightly celebrate the 2024 Nobel Chemistry Prize we also need to recognize the remarkable foresight of those who…