Datathon for the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library (CSL)                                                                                   

Wednesday, March 20, 2:00-5:50 p.m. CDT, Room 349, Morial Convention Center (in-person event)

Organized by: Qiong Yuan (CAS), Grace Baysinger (Emerita, Stanford University), Meghan Lafferty (University of Minnesota), Carmen Nitsche (CCDC), Thomas Vickery (Merck & Co Inc).

Hosted by CAS, the Pistoia Alliance Chemical Safety Library (CSL) is a crowd-sourced database of hazardous reaction incidents to help alert chemists to potentially dangerous experiments. CSL records must include at least two chemical substances. Data, observations, and cautions may come from lab experiences or from the literature. This session will cover key chemical safety information resources plus a prioritized list of hazardous reactions based on a data mining project that participants can choose from for adding records to the CSL. Registration at https://safescience.cas.org, the CSL website, is required before entering incidents. All entries are reviewed before they are published. Names of users along with their organizations from CSL records are used if there are questions by reviewers but are not included in published entries. Participants will learn more about searching for chemical safety information and will help contribute new records from the literature to the CSL database in order to help alert bench chemists about potentially hazardous reaction incidents.