Abstract
This article assesses a key aspect of data sharing that has the
potential to accelerate the progress and impact of medicinal chemistry. To achieve
this the community needs to increase the
outward flow of experimental results locked-up in millions of published PDFs
into structured open databases that explicitly capture the connectivity between
structures, documents and bioactivity results.



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