petermurrayrust
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Retired academic chemist who has hacked for 50 years. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7540500 for soul-baring and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Murray-Rust for info. Now leading http://contentmine.org a project to liberate hundreds of millions of facts from the scientific literature.
Twitter @petermurrayrust
peter [dot] murray [dot] rust [at] googlemail
This is really great and is fully complementary to our Content Mine (contentmine.org). Its' very similar to what I proposed as "the World Wide Molecular Matrix" (WWMM) about 10 years ago…
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