Chemistry on the Web: How Can we Crowdsource Chemistry to Solve Important Problems?

[adelle0001]

nice video!

[TheLycaeum]

Academia can address the problem at 20:00 to 22:00, since making something significantly cheaper means to find a new access to it, which always is a scientific frontier (and the figure he presents doesn't apply to rethinking the whole thing). I once knew somebody who was working on making cancer medication cheaper using biotechnology. He died of cancer early and his work was put to a grinding halt. Pharma wants expensive medication for chronic diseases, not cheap cures for the poor.

[oanezzaa]

i like to know if it's hard to be a chemist,anyone??

[mogden]

43:19 HAY WHO TURNED THE CAMERA ON IM TRYING TO EAT MY SCHWARMA

[MatToddChem]

By the way, if an hour is too much there's a 5-minute version. Google "open science ignite sydney" For the open scientist in a hurry...

[EndeligHelg]

ROFL @ 43:00.. What the hell is that Asian kid doing there?

[MatToddChem]

@EndeligHelg I don't know. He wasn't there when I gave the talk. :)

[aiava]

@EndeligHelg he invaded the talk!! obviously ;D

[Dottyeyes]

Well done! I'm not in the field; I just stumbled across this. An intuitive lab-book interface sounds lucrative! And collective intelligence can work. Even in average-intelligence audiences on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" the ask-the-audience lifeline usually gets the right answer. But then, those Jay Leno man-on-the-street surveys argue to the contrary. In any case, open-source research is a great idea whose time has come!

[Dottyeyes]

@Dottyeyes : by "lucrative" I mean in the way that gmail eventually became commercially lucrative for Google, but also in the collaborative, scientific discoveries that might happen.

[DJControllerC]

@Dottyeyes the analagy that comes to my mind is online forums- they have been ground breaking for me- because even if one poster gives bad onfo- this is usually caught in the same thread- and you can cross reference info and see how often it pops up- this gives you often or almost always a very good idea how reliable info is before you apply it- forums are now including photos and links to videos confirming the accuracy or innacuracy of data presented in a forum- its a remarkable thing

[j1n3l0]

Great talk. I'd be interested to see if it works.

[aoholcombe]

Very nice talk!

[jeanclaudebradley]

Excellent talk Mat!

[michalchik]

@robertvk I am not an organic chemist but I got A's in O-chem and have studied it some. The first slides just seemed like overviews of approaches, nit actual synthetic pathway.

[theway1990]

I was asking myself the same questions... why isn't there a "google synthetic organic chemistry"? As i'm studying chemical engineering, I was suprised at the sheer lack of "excellent" internet sources for organic chemistry.

[robertvk]

@theway1990

Anyone how understands organic chemistry wouldn't ask this question. The question an organic chemist would most likely ask is how can I make molecules and publish while withholding as much information as possible.

You see their is no benefit for an experienced organic chemist to share information. Sharing information, tjhat is experimental information is usually a detriment. \

Unless of course you have a great method that is patented and then you want everyone to know.

[theway1990]

@robertvk I think the point of the video is to try and change the current way of doing things... I don't see what your point about not knowing organic chemistry... I clearly stated I'm a 2nd year chemical engineer and organic chemistry is just a side topic for me... but for even basic things, I'm not talking about new molecules and patentable drugs... but for basic organic compounds and synthesis that have been known for a while, couldn't find a good source for it.

[ZerqTM]

If you want intuative interfaces then stay the hell away from drupal lol X3

I would go for dotnetnuke or mojoportal...

PHP is just a rotten language with crapy unicode support...

and drupal is just built wrong....

[MatToddChem]

@ZerqTM We wanted to use Drupal since it's open source, but a linear blogging platform is not the best way to collaborate, so we're looking around for alternatives, and there aren't any. We need a new intuitive lab notebook - hence this appeal.

[GuzmanTierno]

very interesting, thank you.