As the ChemConnector and one of the people responsible for creating ChemSpider I have become well known in the chemical information world. I get to connect with some of the brightest minds in the domain, have participated in meetings with Microsoft, Google, various government institutions and with some of the top chemical and pharmaceutical companies. While my path to this point feels at some times like a random walk, and certainly I never set a trajectory to become a chemical information specialist as I am a spectroscopist by training, I look back upon my career with a lot of satisfaction. We are now at a time when information is becoming so important to support and guide the discovery process. At the same time the opportunity to communicate your science to the masses is upon us. I will discuss how I became the ChemConnector, my Twitter handle, and why I believe entering the field of cheminformatics at this time holds incredible potential for influence.
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Who knew I would get here from there and how i became the ChemConnector final
1. Who knew I would get here
from there: How I became the
ChemConnector
Antony Williams
ACS San Francisco
August 2014
2. Who am I today?
• I am VP Strategic Development, ChemSpider for the
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) - publisher
• A founder of ChemSpider, RSC cheminformatics
team manager, collaborations, business
development, social marketing - cheminformatician
• Oversee team developing solutions - manager
• Scientific publications - scientist
• Blogger, writer of books – author
• I am @ChemConnector – social networker
3. My background…
• Worked in
• Government lab as postdoc
• Academia as NMR Facility Manager
• Fortune 500 Company as NMR Tech Leader
• Start-up as product manager, marketing
manager, Chief Science Officer
• Consultant – chemistry informatics industry
• Company owner – Created ChemSpider
• Now at Royal Society of Chemistry (bought
ChemSpider)
9. A New World of Contribution
• Times have changed
• Immediacy of social networks
• Commenting on articles/data is here
• The “participating scientist” has high
profile
• And who can be a scientist now???
23. Twitter Contribution
#RealTimeChem 2013
• Twitter-based community project designed to
encourage chemists to:
• actively engage with one another online
• by sharing what they are working on
• at any given time
27. Why am I a Connector?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tipping_Point
Connectors are the people in a community who
know large numbers of people and who are in
the habit of making introductions. A connector
is essentially the social equivalent of a computer
network hub. They usually know people across
an array of social, cultural, professional, and
economic circles, and make a habit of
introducing people who work or live in
different circles.
29. You will be a set of statistics &
profiles
Number of papers, patents, citations, grants, ….
My Blog: www.chemconnector.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChemConnector
Amazon Author Page: Follow Link to Author Page
My Klout: http://www.klout.com/#/ChemConnector
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/antonywilliams
SlideShare: http://www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams
Google Scholar Citations Profile: Antony Williams Citations
Researcher_ID: http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-3089-2009
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_John_Williams
Mendeley Profile: http://www.mendeley.com/profiles/antony-williams/
31. Chemistry Social Networking
• Methods of sharing MY science online include:
• Wikis or blogs
• Slideshare for presentations
• YouTube for videos
• Flickr, Wikimedia etc. for images
• ChemSpider for chemistry
• GoogleDocs for data
• Google Scholar Citations for citations
• Microsoft Academic Scholar for papers
32. Try and EXCITE students
• What I am trying to do today is highlight what is
possible with cheminformatics…what impact you
can have with participating
• What is available for them to use?
• What can they contribute to?
• How important cheminformatics will be to them?
• Not everyone has to be a programmer – a basic
knowledge of scripting goes a long way
36. 1D & 2D NMR Synchronized
Processing
The Software displays correlations for assigned spectra and structures, and highlights
correlations that are likely to be erroneous.
39. Try and not BORE students
• There is work necessary to define the
underpinnings
• Molfiles
• InChIs
• Spectral formats
• Chemical information searching
• And so much to use….
46. Helping Students Connect…
• Career-wise, NOT having a personal presence
online is likely already a detriment
• Establishing a public profile
• Getting on the record
• Collaborative Science
• Demonstrating a skill set
• Measured using alternative metrics
• Contributing to the public peer review process