About

The Birmingham Digital Chemistry Platform fosters an open and streamlined process for the sharing, dissemination, and archiving of raw and curated chemical data, for research, innovation, and educational purposes. This platform is a significant collaborative endeavour, brought to life by the combined efforts of the School of Chemistry and the Research Software Group at the University of Birmingham, through the Birmingham Digital Chemistry Network+ initiative.

The Birmingham Digital Chemistry Network+ envisions becoming a platform for regular initiatives that nurture and strengthen collaborative ties between chemical science and computational science communities. Our goal is to build an interdisciplinary digital chemistry community.

Our mission is to bring together researchers from diverse disciplines and career stages, from PhDs and early career researchers to academics, with research infrastructure engineers specializing in high-performance computing and research software engineering. Together, we aim to generate and develop ground-breaking ideas for interdisciplinary, digital chemistry solutions to urgent issues in environmental sustainability, materials design, drug discovery, scientific laboratory automation, and beyond.

We place special emphasis on sparking discussions and fostering new partnerships to address pressing challenges and explore new opportunities where chemical science and computational science can synergistically enhance each other. By improving our understanding of and access to expertise and capabilities beyond individual disciplines, we aim to advance research ambitions in both the chemical (e.g., AI-driven materials design) and computational science communities (e.g., application-driven development of fundamental AI methods).

Recognizing the immense potential of uniting chemical and computational science, we aim to develop enabling capabilities not only for academic research programs but also technological innovations. The Birmingham Digital Chemistry Network+ thus welcomes researchers from industry and actively seeks engagement with industrial partners in the chemical and digital industries, as indicated by the '+' in our network's name.