Re: opendata QSAR data sets?

At 15:38 30/05/2007, Andreas Bender, PhD wrote:
> Dear Rajarshi and Dear All,

Thanks for the offer. Some comments:
(1) what license or copyright apply to any of these sets. It can be 
difficult to re-use or redictribute data that are encumbered by 
license or other restrictions. And the absence of any license can be 
just as difficult!


> http://www.qsarworld.com/qsar-datasets.php?mm=5 (which manually 
> curated about 40 additional datasets from literature - this website 
> also has a list of links to related database directories.)
(2) some of these data sets have fairly minimal markup in the actual 
files (e.g. <ACTIVITY>) To know what this is one has to read the 
paper. The paper itself is often closed, so essentially the metadata 
is not Open.

P.


Peter Murray-Rust
Unilever Centre for Molecular Sciences Informatics
University of Cambridge,
Lensfield Road,  Cambridge CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069