Contest: Open Source Cheminformatic Tool / 9th Workshop in Chemical Information
A special issue of Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2014) | Viewed by 26494
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chemoinformatics; chemical information; infrastructure for chemical research; online processing and data mining
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The journal Challenges and MDPI are sponsoring a prize of 2’000 CHF (Swiss Francs) for the winner of a contest aiming at identifying the best open source cheminformatic tool of the year. In order to enter the competition, the source code has to be available in an open source format (for instance on a platform like Github). A 1 to 2 pages paper describing the software tool should be submitted to this special issue before the 15 August 2014 and will be published in the journal Challenges after editorial review.
The winner of the contest will be invited to present his/her tool at the 9th Workshop in Chemical Information at the EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland on 12 September 2014 (see the preliminary program here), where the prize will also be awarded.
Dr. Luc Patiny
Guest Editor and organizer of the Workshop
Submission
The short papers should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form for the journal Challenges. The short papers can be submitted until the deadline. Papers will be published continuously (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on this special issue website.
A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Challenges is an international peer-reviewed Open Access biannual journal published by MDPI.
Page charges are fully waived for the short papers submitted to this contest special issue.
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