LabPal is an Android application (available for free in the Google Play store) for students, chemists, and researchers. LabPal provides users elemental properties information and physical constants data with data from reputable scientific sources such as NIST.  Additionally, the app provides simulated infrared spectra of mixtures using theoretical vibrational data. The app was developed for a competition and implemented as a proof of concept. In order to make it more useful for scientists, and take it to the next stage of development, the search feature was updated to allow users to search using a variety of queries (CAS, SMILES, common name, InChi, etc.). The updated search was implemented using a Java HashMap in which the keys are InChi codes and the values are lists of names and other identifiers associated with the InChi code. Adding multiple possible names for the same molecule will allow some variance in user input, while returning the same result. The infrared spectra viewer was also updated to include a larger data set. This data was obtained from free and open access databases, such as the NASA Ames PAH IR Spectroscopic Database. By updating these two features, LabPal is a much more useful to scientists and further facilitate research and lab processes.

LabPal: Chemical information for android

251st National Meeting (2016)

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