The OpenADMET initiative

“Quantity has a quality all of its own”Original source unknownThe quote with which I’ve opened the post on the OpenADMET initiative is often attributed to Joseph Stalin and some suggest that he might have been referring to the T-34. While the safety and comfort of crews were not priorities for Soviet tank designers the T-34 was a better tank than the quote might be taken to imply. In particular, the distinctive sloped armour presented challenges for Wehrmacht anti-tank gunners (at least until the introduction of the the formidable 88 mm PAK 43) while the wider tracks of the T-34 enabled it to operate effectively in conditions that the more refined (and heavier) Tiger could not. Here are some photos of T-34s taken at the Brest Fortress and the War Memorial of Korea: The principal objective of the OpenADMET initiative appears to be generation of measured data to enable machine learning (ML) models to be built for prediction of toxicity and absorption, distribution, metabolism, and…