Chemistry Apps in the Wild and at the Royal Society of Chemistry

Antony Williams

Scientific Publishers Apps

Scientific publishers release apps to:

Provide mobile access to content

Search and deliver content to its registered users and engage other possible users

Greater accessibility means greater readership

Revenue generation from the content, not the app

Increase in Scientific Publisher Apps

RSC Mobile

Chemistry World

RSC|ChemSpider

ChemSpider Mobile Website

ChemSpider Mobile

ChemGoggles

Publication/Database Alerts(in progress)

Chemical Reactions

Chemical reactions can be served up on mobile

What is available now? Teaching basics of chemical reactions Look-ups against reaction databases Reaction mechanisms

Reaction Database Look-up

Work in Progress – 300k Reactions

Spectra on ChemSpider

SpectralGame in the hand

Sourcing information about SciAppshttp://www.scimobileapps.com/

Where can developers post information about their apps? NOT Wikipedia!

iTunes does not segregate based on science

SciMobileApps Wiki…

Chemistry eBooks

The future of the Chemistry eBook…next year then?

eBooks already link to computational engines 3D rotating molecules are expected – stereoscopic

viewing will become standard? Kinect type interface for a tablet? Interactive graphing – data mine public websites to

include data Direct model generation and prediction And….

Open PHACTS Project Develop a set of robust standards… Implement the standards in a semantic integration hub Deliver services to support drug discovery programs in

pharma and public domain 22 partners, 8 pharmaceutical companies, 3 biotechs 36 months project – goes live next month

Guiding principle is open access, open usage, open source- Key to standards adoption -

Guiding principle is open access, open usage, open source- Key to standards adoption -

Already Mobilizing Open PHACTS

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