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NATURE CHEMISTRY
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 365-+Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41557-022-00910-7
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- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [666983]
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
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Large amounts of data generated in chemistry labs are often inaccessible to digital tools due to non-digitally captured and reported data. A modular open-science platform for chemistry would benefit data-mining studies and the chemistry community as a whole. Existing technologies, such as electronic lab notebooks, have made progress in addressing data-management concerns, but further integration and optimization are needed.
Large amounts of data are generated in chemistry labs-nearly all instruments record data in a digital form, yet a considerable proportion is also captured non-digitally and reported in ways non-accessible to both humans and their computational agents. Chemical research is still largely centred around paper-based lab notebooks, and the publication of data is often more an afterthought than an integral part of the process. Here we argue that a modular open-science platform for chemistry would be beneficial not only for data-mining studies but also, well beyond that, for the entire chemistry community. Much progress has been made over the past few years in developing technologies such as electronic lab notebooks that aim to address data-management concerns. This will help make chemical data reusable, however it is only one step. We highlight the importance of centring open-science initiatives around open, machine-actionable data and emphasize that most of the required technologies already exist-we only need to connect, polish and embrace them.
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