Maastricht University

Egon Willighagen

About four weeks ago the [Fall 2023 American Chemical
Society](https://www.acs.org/meetings/acs-meetings/fall-2023.html)
meeting ([\#ACSFall2023](https://mastodon.social/tags/ACSFall2023)). I
have attended a few ACS meetings in person and even organized a
[symposium at the 2010 ACS meeting](https://egonw.github.io/acsrdf2010/)
in Boston. This time too, I did not participate in person, tho visiting
San Francisco again would have been nice. I gave
[two](https://mastodon.social/@egonw@social.edu.nl/110882509829434765)
[presentations](https://mastodon.social/@egonw@social.edu.nl/110883271752255923)
(slides
doi:[10.5281/zenodo.8255394](https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8255394)),
but have not uploaded my slides of the first presentation to Zenodo yet.

The theme of the meeting was data, and this resulted in a wealth of
presentations with cheminformatics. What is striking here is that a lot
of work has not changed so much in 20 years, except for the scale. What
I missed here was the large open data sets, but generally the level of
open science was heartwarming! So many preprints mentions, GitHub
repositories, and Zenodo deposits. The Blue Obelisk was truly ahead of
its time, but it is a delight to see the field of chemistry catch up. I
can now say a lot of about peer review, and why the field is not
benefitting from all the experience that exists in the field because
people publish in the wrong journals, but that is for another time.

I attended multiple sessions, which is a bit of a challenge, doing this
remotely from Central European Summer Time (CEST). Of course, the Sunday
started with the [Chemical informatics (R)evolution: Towards
Democratization and Open
Science](https://acs.digitellinc.com/sessions/574129/view) session,
where I had my first talk, and later that day the [Enhance your Data -
Smart Ways to Metadata and Knowledge
Graphs](https://acs.digitellinc.com/sessions/573932/view) session, where
I gave a second talk, about [Bioschemas](https://bioschemas.org/)'
`ChemicalSubstance`{.language-plaintext .highlighter-rouge} and
`MolecularEntity`{.language-plaintext .highlighter-rouge}. Sadly, I had
to leave that meeting early because it was getting too late.

There were so many interesting sessions, I could not attend everything.
I also have to go back to all [my
notes](https://mastodon.social/tags/ACSFall2023) and isolate things I
want to follow up on, prominently open datasets.

More later.


About four weeks ago the Fall 2023 American Chemical Society meeting (#ACSFall2023). I have attended a few ACS meetings in person and even organized a symposium at the 2010 ACS meeting in Boston. This time too, I did not participate in person, tho visiting San Francisco again would have been nice. I gave two presentations (slides doi:10.5281/zenodo.8255394), but have not uploaded my slides of the first presentation to Zenodo yet.

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American Chemical Society Fall 2023 meeting