mobilizing chemistry - chemistry in our hands
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This is a presentation I gave at the Special Libraries Association 2010 conference in New Orleans regarding "Mobile Chemistry". What is the status of chemistry on mobile devices? How do Apps match up against mobile browser based approaches? What is the future of tablets/pads versus phones for accessing content? A review of chemistry apps, online chemistry databases, ChemSpider, Mobile ChemSpider, ChemSpider SyntheticPagesTRANSCRIPT
Mobilizing Science – Chemistry in Our Hands
Mobile Chemistry
What is mobile? Today? Tomorrow?
Chemistry “applications” made mobile
An overview of chemistry applications Publishers Chemistry applications Chemistry databases
What the future holds?
Mobile Chemistry
ithingies : Pods, Pads, Phones Phones with browsers Tablets with network connectivity
Mobile Chemistry
ithingies : Pods, Pads, Phones Phones with browsers Tablets with network connectivity
“Apps” versus Mobile Browsers Apps: Kudos and marketing value, dedicated to
platform functionality, offline usage Apps: Maintenance, distribution, local
versioning, longevity, development skills
Mobile Chemistry eBooks and access to Publishers content – Nature,
ACS, PubMed browsing, others
In lab assistants Stoichiometry calculators Equation balancing Elemental formulae to mass
Educational tools: Periodic Tables Flip cards, Q&As, Study aids
Mobile Chemistry
Multimedia access AND generation: YouTube videos, MP3s
Structure drawing tools
Look up tools: Types of reactions, Wikipedia searches, Chemistry database searching
Small molecules and biomolecules
Scientific Publishers Apps
Scientific Publisher Apps
Scientific Publisher Apps
Managing Papers
Managing Papers
Wikipedia Chemistry
Wikipedia Chemistry
Chemistry in the Palm and Pocket
Chemical Structure DrawingChemJuice
Chemical Structure DrawingChemJuice
Linked toYouTube Content
Chemical Structure DrawingMobile Molecular Datasheet
Chemical Structure DrawingMobile Molecular Datasheet
Structure Drawing as an entry point
Drawing structures “for the sake of”? Structure entry as an entry point to:
Calculations (formula, mass) Predictions (local or server-based)
Systematic name generation, logP, pKa, NMR prediction, etc.
Database lookup On device dictionaries (because space doesn’t
matter!) Internet-hosted databases (because the latest
content does matter)
Chemical Structure DrawingMolpad on Android
Structure Database Lookup
Structure Database Lookup
Structure Database Lookup
Structure Database Lookup
Structure Database Lookup
General Reactions (iPhone App)
Reactions
Reaction Database Look-up
Reaction Database Look-up
Large Molecules? (iPhone App)
Future: Predictions
Short term : most innovations will quickly commoditize and there will be 1-2 top applications
Cloud-based “paper management” will expand (Papers, Mendeley, etc.)
Mid-term : iPad will popularize tablet usage – applications optimized to the dimensions
Online algorithms will serve up APIs for prediction Online databases will popularize through
“services” more than applications ChemSpider, PubChem, Pubmed
Mobile Chemistry Articlehttp://tinyurl.com/294b6lb
Thank you
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