Engaging with chemistry in the biosciences requires navigation between journals, patents, abstracts, databases, Google results and connecting across millions of structures specified only in text.   The ability to do this in public sources has been revolutionised by several trends a) ChEMBL's capture of SAR from journals c) the deposition  of three major automated patent extractions (SureChem, IBM and SCRIPDB) in PubChem for over 15 million structures,  d) open tools such as chemicalize.org, OPSIN, and OSCAR that enable the conversion of IUPAC names or images to structures  e) the indexing of chemical terms (e.g. InChIKeys) that turn Google searches into a merged global repository  of 40 to 50 million structures. Details of these trends, including PubChem intersect statistics, will be presented,  along with practical examples from selected tools. New structure sharing trends will also be considered such as patent crowdsourcing, dropbox, blogs, figshare and open lab notebooks.

Navigating between patents, papers, abstracts, and databases using public sources and tools

245th National Meeting (2013)

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