Chemistry Central Blog
Chemistry Central will once again be exhibiting at the American Chemical Society National Meeting, to be held in Philadelphia 17-21 August. Come and see Jan Kuras, Lisa Prickett or me at booth 305 and enter our draw to win a pretty cool MP4 watch!
Once again energy is high on the agenda with a Presidential session on Global Energy Challenges in the 21st Century, Monday, August 18 (cosponsored by Committee on International Activities and Committee on Science) 1:30 to 5 p.m. Philadelphia Marriott, Grand Ballroom Salon F.
Several excellent sessions combine to form Chemistry for Health: Catalyzing Translational Research.
Advice is on hand from the Younger Chemists programming in the form of 3 sessions:
- Getting Your First Industrial Job
- From Test-Tube to Start-Up Companies
- Opportunities and Challenges for Non-Tenure Track Faculty
For more of a publishing bias turn to the Division of Chemical Information (CINF). Rob McFarland and Andrea Twiss-Brooks have pulled together an interesting session Preservation Issues for the Digital Library where I'm particularly looking forward to Leah Solla's presentation to find out what role a university library can play in riding the rising tide of research data.
In the Datamining and Textmining Approaches to Drug Discovery session Matthew Stahl (OpenEye Scientific Software) will present on medium throughput methods for extracting chemical information out of a number of document sources.
In the same session Igor V. Filippov (National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health) will present the latest developments of Optical Structure Recognition Application (OSRA), an open source project which has been designed to extract chemical structure images from documents such as patents and scientific publications and convert the extracted images into the computer-readable SMILES format.
Peter Johnson (University of Leeds) will cover the main problems involved with Chemical OCR
i) identification of chemical images within a document
ii) compilation of chemical graphs of individual molecules from chemical images, and
iii) interpretation of complex objects such as generic molecules and reaction schemes using the retrieved chemical graphs
while highlighting CLiDE Pro, the latest incarnation of software to emerge from the long-term CLiDE (Chemical Literature Data Extraction) project.
It should be an interesting few days.
Again, do stop by our booth (#305) to discuss open access to the chemical literature. We look forward to seeing you in Philadelphia!
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