Recent advances in the computing power of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets, combined with rapid developments of chemistry-oriented software in the form of apps, has lead to the serious possibility of replacing whole or partial workflows with a corresponding mobile solution. By redesigning the user interface to work optimally well on the mobile form factor, and augmenting with cloud-hosted services to provide complex calculations and access to online databases, there are many cheminformatics tasks that can be accomplished without the use of a conventional desktop or laptop computer. Furthermore, the strong networking capabilities of mobile devices can be leveraged to compose collaborative and heterogeneous workflows that involve multiple researchers using a variety of different computing platforms.This presentation will explore some of the app technology that has been developed for mobile cheminformatics workflow tasks, and describe some of the hurdles that have been overcome. It will address the limitations that remain to be dealt with, such as the difficulties involved in working with large datasets, and some of the future projects that are currently being planned.

Mobile + Cloud: A replacement for desktop cheminformatics?

245th National Meeting (2013)

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