The Kitware Blog - Open Chemistry, Semantic Physical Science and Kinecting Chemistry

“Before the recent announcement of Open Chemistry, I was invited to the Semantic Physical Science Workshop and Symposium in Cambridge, England... Peter Murrary-Rust has put up videos of the talks given in the symposium on the final day... One of the things we are working to address in the Open Chemistry work is sharing and providing semantic meaning to data so that it can be searched... I had been looking at novel interaction techniques in Avogadro for a while... I used the Microsoft Kinect, with the OpenNI drivers, and wrote a plugin for Avogadro to take skeletal data and manipulate the camera of the active view...”