chemspider – disseminating data and enabling an abundance of chemistry platforms
DESCRIPTION
ChemSpider is one of the chemistry community’s primary public compound databases. Containing tens of millions of chemical compounds and its associated data ChemSpider serves data to many tens of websites and software applications at this point. This presentation will provide an overview of the expanding reach of the ChemSpider platform and the nature of solutions that it helps to enable. We will also discuss some of the future directions for the project that are envisaged and how we intend to continue expanding the impact for the platform.TRANSCRIPT
ChemSpider – disseminating data and enabling an abundance of
chemistry platforms
Antony Williams, Valery Tkachenko, Ken Karapetyan, Alexey Pshenichnov, Dmitry Ivanov, Colin Batchelor, Jon Steele
and David Sharpe
ACS New Orleans April 2013
ChemSpider
• >28.5 million unique chemicals from >400 data sources
• Focus on improving data quality, enhancing functionality, integrating and enabling
Some usage statistics• ca. 200 visitors at any one time, ~30,000 visits per day• Mar 4-Apr 3, 2013
– Visits = 731,656– Unique Visitors = 527,008
• Independent servers to support other projects
Access ChemSpider
• APIs– Programmatic access used by Mobile Apps, Funded
Consortia projects, many Academic groups
• Widgets– UI components for embedding in other websites
• Data– Data access, downloads, reuse, licensing
Supporting the Semantic Webrdf.chemspider.com/CSID
ChemSpider Resources for Chemistry
From this…..…..to this
Simplified interface
ChemSpider Audiences
Substance Pages
It is so difficult to navigate…
What’s the structure?What’s the structure?
Are they in our file?
Are they in our file?
What’s similar?What’s similar?
What’s the target?
What’s the target?Pharmacology
data?Pharmacology
data?
Known Pathways?
Known Pathways?
Working On Now?
Working On Now?Connections to
disease?Connections to
disease?
Expressed in right cell type?
Expressed in right cell type?
Competitors?Competitors?
IP?IP?
• 3-year knowledge management IMI project
• Integrating chemistry and biology data and delivering using semantic web technologies
• Open source code, open data and open standards
• Academics, Pharma companies, Publishers….
ChemSpider Contributions
• The host of the chemistry services– Supplier of “standardized” chemical data files– Chemistry searching (structure, substructure etc)– Provider of data in RDF format – Curator and data quality checking
• Now building the Open PHACTS chemical registration system
ChemSpider Contributions
• Supplier of chemistry UI components• “Quality Police” for data checking • Chemical Validation and Standardization Platform• Nanopublications from RSC publications
• FP7 Initiative. PharmaSea: increasing value and flow in the marine biodiscovery pipeline
PharmaSea
• Dereplication via ChemSpider• Segregation of natural products datasets• Analytical data algorithms & integration
– Mass spec searching – predicted fragmentation
– NMR feature searching – NMR prediction– Computer-assisted structure elucidation
Integrate to instruments and software
• Integration to analytical instrumentation vendors already in place – Agilent, Bruker, Thermo, Waters
• Also, Cheminformatics vendors link to ChemSpider– Accelrys, ACD/Labs, ChemAxon, iChemLabs, and…
Natural Products Updates
• Names hard, Structures “Obvious”
• New content based on monthly updates of the database
• Click through to the Natural Products Updates entry
National Chemical Database Service
Chemical Database Service• National Chemical Database
Service for UK Academics
• Integrating Commercial Databases and Services
• Chemicals, analytical data, prediction algorithms
• Development of data repository
Retrosynthetic Analysis
Publications - a summary of work
• Scientific publications are a summary of work– Is all work reported?– How much science is lost to pruning?– What of value sits in notebooks and is lost?
• How much data is lost?– How many compounds never reported?– How many syntheses fail or succeed?– How many characterization measurements?
Community Repository for Data• Funding agencies encourage sharing of data• Increasing availability of “Open Data”• Institutional repositories no specific domain
support • Develop a community repository for chemistry
data – private, public, embargoed• Provides data to develop models/algorithms
Community Repository for Data• Automated depositions of data• DOI’ed data objects for citation purposes• A database of reference data, but validated by
the community • National services feeding the repository –
crystallography, mass spectrometry• Integrate to blogging tools for chemistry• Integrate to Electronic Lab Notebooks as feeds
Model Building with Community Data
• Community data as a basis of model building– Consume data from available databases, community
data, new publications and build predictive algorithms for the community
– How many algorithms are reported and lost? How much repeat work is done in the domain of algorithmic development?
Recognition onData
IC50 Measurements for 62 substituted benzoxazolesChemSpider Data Repository: DOI: 10.1356/CSID784.4
Integrate to electronic lab notebooks
E-Lab Notebooks
• Previous work with IDBS and University of Cambridge
• Working on LabTrove integration win U. Southampton
• Integration between ELNs and:• ChemSpider• ChemSpider Reactions• CDS Repository
• Publish data from ELNs issue DOIs
• Data aggregated into fully indexed ESI format for publication
Support for Chemical Reactions
• Integrating mined reaction data from patents (Daniel Lowe)
• Will also incorporate and integrate: Methods of Organic Synthesis, Catalysts and Catalyzed Reactions and…
Micro-publishing Chemical Reactions
ChemSpider SyntheticPages
Retrosynthetic Analysis
Inside our Publication Archive
• How much data is in the archive, in the publications and in the supplementary info?– How many compounds for ChemSpider?– How many syntheses for ChemSpider reactions?– How many characterization measurements?
• Property Data• Spectral Data• Graphs and charts to be used for modeling?
What if we could capture it all?Digitally Enhancing the RSC Archive
Start with data in publications
Recent Work
Comparison of Spectra
Data Validation and Curation Required
CVSP: Validation and Standardization
Data Validation and Curation Required
Encouraging Participation with Rewards and RECOGNITION
Manual Curation
• Integrated commenting, curating and validation platform across ALL eScience and publishing platforms
• All integrated to a central RSC profile and feeding the AltMetrics tools
Structure Review
Where we are now…
Rewards and Recognition
Congratulations! Your 1st CSSP article has been published. Philosopher Lao Tzu said “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step”. In the same way we hope that this will be the first of many submissions that you make to CSSP.
The First Step badge is awarded when a user submits (& has published) their 1st CSSP article.
Future Recognition in AltMetrics?
ChemSpider
Why is ChemSpider “different”
• Interfaces for integration• Sharing of data – and increasingly open• Open for community participation
– Deposition– Annotation– Curation
• We are clear…the world is changing
Internet Data
The Future
Commercial SoftwarePre-competitive Data
Open ScienceOpen DataPublishersEducators
Open DatabasesChemical Vendors
Small organic moleculesUndefined materialsOrganometallicsNanomaterialsPolymersMineralsParticle boundLinks to Biologicals
Acknowledgments • The RSC eScience and infrastructure teams• Our data providers, depositors, collaborators
and curators• Daniel Lowe for Reaction Data• William Brouwer, Penn State• Software providers – OpenEye, ChemDoodle,
ACD/Labs, GGA Software, Open Source (Jmol, JSpecView, OpenBabel)
Thank you
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