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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Thanks Don, I think neglected diseases are an area that can blaze a trail for open approaches in research with significant impacts that can be communicated to the wider community.

I have been using Konsole for years, I like the tabs, themes, and integration in KDE. I tried Yakuake and quite liked it, but it never really quite fitted in with my workflow. It looks like there are some great additions, and it is probably time to give a few others a whirl. Any of them feel like luxury after being sat on a Windows box for 20 minutes debugging something in a terminal - still not found anything there I like to use...