Marcus D. Hanwell

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Marcus D. Hanwell
Rexford, NY

Marcus D. Hanwell | Marcus leads the Open Chemistry project, developing open source tools for chemistry, bioinformatics, and materials science research. He completed an experimental PhD in Physics at the University of Sheffield, a Google Summer of Code developing Avogadro and Kalzium, and a postdoctoral fellowship combining experimental and computational chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh before moving to Kitware in late 2009. He is now a Technical Leader in the Scientific Computing group at Kitware, a member of the Blue Obelisk, blogs, @mhanwell on Twitter and is active on Google+. He is passionate about open science, open source and making sense of increasingly large scientific data to understand the world around us.

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Great post, I have not had this kind of meal for many years (I think we did this when I was in Japan nearly ten years ago now) and would love to do it again. I think there are some great analogies, and this is a great way of explaining why open source is important, and why the right to create derivative works matters in such a tasty example ;-)

Great article Luis, it is great to see such open publication methods being explored - something for the rest of us to strive for in our future endeavors! I have used ASCIIDOC a little in the past, the web site says the code is LGPL licensed (v3 icon, 2.1+ in the site's text). I love some of the animated figures in the online HTML version, very illustrative.