Accessing Royal Society of Chemistry resources and making chemistry mobile

Antony Williams, Alexey Pshenichnov and Valery Tkachenko

ACS Dallas

March 2014

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?

Mobile Optimised Sites vs Apps

ChemSpider

ChemSpider

ChemSpider SyntheticPages

Chemistry World App

RSC Mobile

Sponsoring Apps

ChemSpider Mobile

Structure Editor Built-in

Structure Drawing

Mobile Android

• Released 2012 for Android.

• Similar feature set to iOS version

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

Lab Solvents

• Released 2012 for Android. Sponsored by RSC.

• Similar content to Green Solvents

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

Open Drug Discovery Teams

• Chemistry aware

• Users can• emit data• acquire data

• Long term plan is to accumulate open drug data

Why is Open Source Drug data of interest to RSC?

Experiments in Mobile

Places of Chemistry

Not all experiments succeed

ChemGoggles

ChemGoggles

NPU Alerts

Coming Soon…

• Iterating functionality and capabilities of ChemSpider Mobile – watch this space

• Books vs Apps – Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry

• Reactions and Analytical Data

Revamped ChemSpider Mobile

Revamped ChemSpider Mobile

…and iPad Screen Layout

Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry

Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry

Handbook of Medicinal Chemistry

ChemSpider Reactions

Spectral Display in the hand

Javascript viewer NMR, MS, IR

Constant Review

Responsive / ProgressiveNew DevicesApps / DiscoverabilityeBook ReadersHTML5 / ePub3

Customer needs and capabilities have to come ahead of technologies

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

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

Sourcing information about Scientific Apps

• SciMobileApps Wiki: scimobileapps.com

• Add your own apps or one you discovered• Open content and community-driven

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

Thank you

Email: williamsa@rsc.orgORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821 Twitter: @ChemConnectorPersonal Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams