The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) recently unveiled a new chemical education wiki, called RSC LearnChemistry:Share.   This site is designed to bring the features of RSC ChemSpider into an education site, as well as to create a workspace where educators can share their resources (quizzes, lab experiments, tutorials, etc.). The wiki is built around a cheminformatics platform, and educators will naturally be exposed to basic cheminformatics concepts as they use the site and contribute content.  For example, InChIs can be generated in the site and entered by teachers, to define answers to their quiz questions.  Substance pages are found by InChIKey-directed structure searches.  These and other pages can display �live� ChemSpider data, including spectra.  As a community of educators develops on the site, these active contributors will learn to use cheminformatics tools in the best way � by using them to educate their students.

Learning about cheminformatics through an education wiki

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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