This is a presentation I gave at Burlington House in London regarding some of the RSC projects we conduct that support Open Innovation

1. Royal Society of Chemistry projects
underpinning Open Innovation
Open Innovation Event
June 2013

2. Open Innovation as an Ecosystem

3. RSC as an Intermediary
• We contribute to the science community as a
reporter and distributor of scientific content, as a
networker of scientists and the community, and
as an innovator
• We facilitate access to
– Data
– Technology
– Communities

4. RSC Innovation
An example from eScience…
• Development of a compound centric data hub:
– Aggregation of publicly accessible data sources
– Exposing chemistry data directly from RSC articles
– Crowd sourced deposition
– Access to data and services for the community via
software programming interfaces

5. Publications
Publications summarise
data acquisition, analysis
and conclusions.
– Much detail in the data
– Improved navigation
should include data access
– Reanalysis and reuse of
data is limited in PDFs

6. Manage data in publications

7. ChemSpider
• >28.5 million unique chemicals updated daily
• Aggregated from >450 data sources
• Focus on improving data quality, enhancing
functionality, integrating and enabling
• Facilitating access to “data on the web” rather
than abstracting

8. Building a Chemical Data Repository
• Scientific publications are a summary of work
– Is all work reported? Make Supp Info more
valuable
– What of value sits in notebooks and is lost?
• How much data is lost?
– How many compounds never reported?
– How many syntheses fail or succeed?
– How many characterization measurements?
• The need to support “micropublications”

9. Micropublishing Syntheses

10. ChemSpider SyntheticPages

11. A Data Repository as a Foundation
• Provide access to data and services:
– Funded Consortia projects access the system
– Billion dollar organizations integrate –
• Agilent, Bruker, Thermo, Waters
– Software systems proliferate the data
– Mobile Apps delivered
– Data access, downloads, reuse, licensing

12. • FP7 Initiative. PharmaSea:
increasing value and flow in
the marine biodiscovery
pipeline (2012-2017)

13. PharmaSea
• Dereplication via ChemSpider
• Segregation of natural products datasets
• Analytical data algorithms & integration
– Computer-assisted structure elucidation

14. It is so difficult to navigate…
What’s the
structure?
What’s the
structure?
Are they in
our file?
Are they in
our file?
What’s
similar?
What’s
similar?
What’s the
target?
What’s the
target?Pharmacology
data?
Pharmacology
data?
Known
Pathways?
Known
Pathways?
Working On
Now?
Working On
Now?Connections to
disease?
Connections to
disease?
Expressed in
right cell type?
Expressed in
right cell type?
Competitors?Competitors?
IP?IP?

15. • 3-year Innovative Medicines Initiative project
• Integrating chemistry and biology data using semantic
web technologies
• Open source code, open data and open standards
• Academics, Pharma companies, Publishers….

16. Chemical Database
Service
• National Chemical Database Service
for UK Academics
• Integrating Commercial Databases
and Services
• Chemicals, analytical data,
prediction algorithms
• Development of data repository

17. Community Repository for Data
• Funding agencies encourage sharing of data
• Increasing availability of “Open Data”
• Develop a community repository for chemistry
data – private, public, embargoed
• National services feeding the repository –
crystallography, mass spectrometry
• Integrate to social networking tools for chemistry
• Integrate to Electronic Lab Notebooks

18. Model Building with Community Data
• Community data as a basis of model building
– Consume data from available databases, community
data, new publications and build predictive
algorithms for the community
– How many algorithms are reported and lost? How
much repeat work is done in the domain of
algorithmic development?

19. As Part of the BIG Data Map

20. Encourage Participation with
Rewards and Recognition

21. RSC Emerging Technologies Competition
• “…support research intensive small companies
and academics on the path to commercialising
technology in the chemical sciences”
• The Prize
– Bespoke programme of mentoring and support
– introduction to investors
– Marketing and PR

22. 2013 WINNERS: University of Oxford, AQDOT and Biogelx

23. RSC and the
Global Chemistry Network