BAGIM:
Boston Area Group for Informatics and Modeling

Upcoming Meeting - Wednesday, August 25, 2010 Dinner Meeting @ Barlow’s Restaurant
  • Networking – open cash bar: 5:30 - 6:00 pm
  • Dinner: 6:00 - 7:15 pm
  • Evening Meeting: 7:15pm - 8:00pm(ish)
  • Discussion Period: 8:00 - 8:30pm

Register for the meeting here

Barlow’s Restaurant
241 A Street, South Boston, MA, 02210; Tel: 617-338-2142
Parking: Validated Parking ($3) in the Binford St. lot

Dinner Cost: $20 per person ($10 for students, student ID required); Cash Bar

DINNER MENU

Directions are here

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO: NESACS
SEND CHECKS TO:

BAGIM c/o Kenneth Mattes, 9 Hardy Road, Marlborough, MA, 01752

“ChemSpider – Is This The Future of Linked Chemistry on the Internet?”

Antony Williams
Vice President of Strategic Development
ChemSpider, Royal Society of Chemistry

ChemSpider was developed with the intention of aggregating and indexing available sources of chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and making it available to everybody, at no charge. There are now hundreds of chemical structure databases such as literature data, chemical vendor catalogs, molecular properties, environmental data, toxicity data, analytical data etc. and no single way to search across them. Despite the diversity of databases available online their inherent quality, accuracy and completeness is lacking in many regards. ChemSpider was established to provide a platform whereby the chemistry community could contribute to cleaning up the data, improving the quality of data online and expanding the information available to include data such as reaction syntheses, analytical data and experimental properties. ChemSpider has now grown into a database of almost 25 million chemical substances, grows daily, and is integrated with over 400 sources, many of these directly supporting the Life Sciences. This presentation will provide an overview of our efforts to improve the quality of data online, to provide a foundation for a linked web for chemistry and to provide access to a set online tools and services to support access to these data.

MEETING SPONSOR INFORMATION

The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is the largest organization in Europe for advancing the chemical sciences, with 46,000 members and an internationally acclaimed publishing business. RSC provides the scientific community with high quality journals, books, and innovative databases such as ChemSpider, that span throughout the chemistry spectrum. The strength of the RSC library continues to rise with 90% of our journals posting an impact factor over 3 and collection average of 5.46. These figures provide a clear indication that more researchers than ever before are recognizing journals from the RSC as a key resource to access the very best research. The RSC remains committed as a not-for-profit society to providing a high impact collection of cutting edge chemical science to researchers throughout the world. For more information about the RSC, visit www.rsc.org, or to learn more about RSC Publishing link to our new eplatform at http://pubs.rsc.org.