Digital innovators of chemistry – join us in future development for a truly FAIR chemical data ecosystem. The Beilstein Cheminfo Labs are projects, activities and contributions to the further development of new cheminformatics functionalities and corresponding prototypes. These contributions include funding for infrastructure and projects, as well as support from our in‑house team of cheminformaticians. Key components to all of these activities are that the projects are community-led, based on open source licenses and aim to enable FAIR chemistry.
One of our goals is the extraction and dissemination of FAIR chemical data with an open source workflow that we have developed in house. For this reason, we began collaborating with the InChI Trust to expand the International Chemical Identifier (InChI). We have successfully integrated the InChI into the Beilstein Journals - this is pioneering work in the world of scientific publishing. For this purpose, the graphical structures submitted by the authors are analyzed and made machine-readable to convert them into data subject to FAIR data principles.
In line with our open science mission to support the chemical community, all software applications developed for this workflow will subsequently be made freely available as open source software.
