#chemspider

[piermanwalter]

Wolfram Alpha. ChemSpider. The best scientific websites have names that sound like edgy fursonas.

[ngodingkode-blog-blog]

Short Overview of ChemSPider at Drexel University

Short Overview of ChemSPider at Drexel University

This presentation was written to deliver before the live overview of CHemSPider. The live presentation is captured here on video:

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[chemicals-world-blog]

InChIKey now added to Chemical blogspace

Using the InChI webservices as introduced by Anthony earlier, I added InChIKeys to the Chemical blogspace Molecules section: BTW, the molecules were picked up because the (1-3)-beta-D-glucan - How moulds can make you wheeze and sneeze and What I'm up against... items linked to the glucose entry in wikipedia.

[sallyblogsthings]

Does anyone know what this molecule is I've been working with it for four lab sessions and I still don't know its fucking name and CHEMSPIDER ISN'T FINDING IT

[sciencelibrary]

Antony Williams on ChemSpider at #ACSDenver

Antony Williams presented "ChemSpider: Does Community Engagement Work to Build a Quality Online Resource for Chemists?" at the 242nd American Chemical Society National Meeting today.  This is just one of his five presentations on ChemSpider this week.  He noted at the end of the session that the presentation will be on his SlideShare page soon.

In the presentation, he noted that he has supposedly written two books according to Amazon.  One is Collaborative Computational Technologies for Biomedical Research, and the other is I Hate Sex, but there may be some author disambiguation in this case.  Maybe there is another Anthony J. Williams?

Throughout the presentation, he noted how much you can't trust data from many supposedly reputable sources, but the staff at ChemSpider work to double and triple check their sources.  They work with about 400 outside suppliers of chemical data, and many data points do not match up.  Many data suppliers get their data from other sources, so often times errors can be repeated because of simple redundancy. 

Letting "the crowd" fix errors doesn't really work because the interested crowd in chemistry is pretty small.

He mentions many other interesting projects such as the Spectral Game,  SpectraSchool, Open PHACTS, and the ChemSpider Synthetic Pages.  To date, they have only had a little over 130 people contribute to this freely available interactive database of synthetic chemistry, and they would like more people to be submit their data.

If you want more information on Antony Williams, you can also follow him on his twitter account or read his personal blog.