Over 70% of the world's population, i.e. 5 billion people will routinely use mobile devices in the next few years. In this age of immediate access and connectivity, an unprecedented �global conversation� and capability has arisen creating many new opportunities for content capture, manipulation, and dissemination. Unfortunately, the number of people developing cloud-based mobile applications is far too small to meet the global need.  To this end, we have been engaged with Accelrys on a multi-year project to extend their popular Pipeline Pilot framework to interface directly with hand-held devices to leverage mobile capabilities including image capture, upload and annotation, geo-location tagging, audio and video capture, and other forms of content capture and manipulation. Earlier this year, we released the 'ScienceCloud Tasks' mobile app (freely available to the world in the Apple Appstore), and have plans to develop an Android version.  By better interfacing mobile devices with server-based, cloud-deployed pipelining technologies, we expect to dramatically simplify mobile-cloud app development and deployment in general, and hope to open-up new possibilities in workflows (i.e. 'tasks') associated with publication assembly, submission, editing, and distribution.

New strategies to engage more of the world with scientific app development and content deployment

248th National Meeting (2014)

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