Please tell us your favourite Open Science success story

Question

For the Wikimedia Fellowship Freies Wissen we are collecting success stories of open scientists or open science projects, institutions, initiatives. Please add yours!

Answer 1

I think the collection of Blue Obelisk projects have done pretty well in making the field of cheminformatics and field depending on it (like drug discovery) Open, which was a very closed field. Citation counts of the Chemistry Development Kit, Open Babel, and Avogadro show a very clear picture here.