The ongoing drive towards mobile devices is now simply one of generic ubiquity. It is less an issue of whether a scientist has a mobile device but rather what brand, what generation and what apps do they have installed. Chemistry has fast been moving to mobile devices for a number of years now and today is it possible to draw chemical compounds, perform searches of databases both on device and in the cloud. Modeling of data using server based platforms is increasing in scope and capabilities. The Royal Society of Chemistry was early in recognizing the potential power of mobile platforms in terms to allowing scientists to access data and the benefits of such devices to allowing students access to data and content. This presentation will provide an overview of our efforts to date in supporting chemistry technologies on mobile devices and our recent developments in this domain.
Accessing royal society of chemistry resources and making chemistry mobile
1. Accessing Royal Society of
Chemistry resources and making
chemistry mobile
Antony Williams, Alexey Pshenichnov
and Valery Tkachenko
ACS Dallas
March 2014
2. Our Mobile Timeline
• 2010 Chemistry World v1
• 2010 Publishing Platform & ChemSpider
mobile sites
• 2011 RSCMobile, ChemSpider and
Chemistry World v2 mobile apps
• 2012-2013 Experiments
• 2014 What’s coming?
18. Green Solvents
• Released 2011 for iOS. Sponsored by RSC.
• Reponse to ACS GCI report on greenness of
solvents...
• identified by Sean Ekins
• available only as PDF
• behind a login
• listed by name only
• Free app, structure-centric
19. Lab Solvents
• Released 2012 for Android. Sponsored by
RSC.
• Similar content to Green Solvents
20. Open Drug Discovery Teams
• Released 2012 for iOS.
• Scientific newsreader for rare & neglected
diseases and precompetitive topics
• Source material: Twitter & RSS
• Crowd-curation paradigm
• Micropublication capability
21. Open Drug Discovery Teams
• Chemistry aware
• Users can
• emit data
• acquire data
• Long term plan is to
accumulate open
drug data
22. Why is Open Source Drug
data of interest to RSC?
31. Coming Soon…
• Iterating functionality and capabilities of
ChemSpider Mobile – watch this space
• Books vs Apps – Handbook of Medicinal
Chemistry
• Reactions and Analytical Data
41. Constant Review
Responsive / Progressive
New Devices
Apps / Discoverability
eBook Readers
HTML5 / ePub3
Customer needs and capabilities have to come
ahead of technologies
42. Challenges
• Authentication
• New Devices / Number of Devices devices
• Testing on devices (availability)
• Supporting Devices / Staff training
• App Store approval
• On going future maintenance - more
technologies than just a hosted website
43. Conclusion
• RSC’s commitment to a mobile strategy is
obvious and includes:
• Access to Journal Content
• Access to Database Content
• Structure/substructure searching across all
content
• Continue to experiment
44. Sourcing information about
Scientific Apps
• SciMobileApps Wiki: scimobileapps.com
• Add your own apps or one you discovered
• Open content and community-driven
45. Acknowledgments
• Alex Clark – ChemSpider Mobile, Green
Solvents, Open Drug Discovery team, Lab
Solvents
• Sean Ekins – SciMobileApps wiki
• Bob Hanson and Bob Lancashire
• Will Russell and Richard Kidd
46. Thank you
Email: williamsa@rsc.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821
Twitter: @ChemConnector
Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
Notas do Editor
Here we are using the alt’meter in the device to let the user tilt the device and bring the trolley back and forth
Places of Chemistry is the one that could probably link most closely to a tour book – but instead it utilises the geo positioning to work out where you are. Apps like this typicall allow you to update in real time.
It’s not working perfectly yet – so still in the R&D stages