I'd like to know more about this:
Microsoft ventures into e-chemistry
Computational chemists have secured funding from computing giant Microsoft to showcase how chemistry can benefit from open access data sharing on the internet.
The two-year eChemistry pilot project represents 'a major test case' for proposed new protocols for sharing scholarly information over the web, said Lee Dirks, director of scholarly communications at Microsoft Research. Chemists across six institutions will search and index existing online databases and print archives, and work out how best to record data captured in lab experiments, so that disparate sources of information about molecules become machine-readable and searchable.
(from here)
Perhaps a series on the wider applications of MSR technologies?