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

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