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 SyntheticPages

1. Mobilizing Science – Chemistry in Our
Hands

2. 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?

3. Mobile Chemistry
 ithingies : Pods, Pads, Phones
 Phones with browsers
 Tablets with network connectivity

5. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9. Scientific Publishers Apps

10. Scientific Publisher Apps

11. Scientific Publisher Apps

12. Managing Papers

13. Managing Papers

14. Wikipedia Chemistry

17. Wikipedia Chemistry

18. Chemistry in the Palm and Pocket

19. Chemical Structure Drawing
ChemJuice

20. Chemical Structure Drawing
ChemJuice
Linked to
YouTube
Content

21. Chemical Structure Drawing
Mobile Molecular Datasheet

22. Chemical Structure Drawing
Mobile Molecular Datasheet

23. 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)

24. Chemical Structure Drawing
Molpad on Android

25. Structure Database Lookup

26. Structure Database Lookup

27. Structure Database Lookup

28. Structure Database Lookup

29. Structure Database Lookup

30. General Reactions (iPhone App)

31. Reactions

32. Reaction Database Look-up

33. Reaction Database Look-up

34. Large Molecules? (iPhone App)

35. 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

36. Mobile Chemistry Article
http://tinyurl.com/294b6lb

37. Thank you
antony.williams@chemspider.com
Twitter: ChemSpiderman
www.chemspider.com/blog
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