September 8, 2003, New York, NY, USA, ACD/Labs ACS Fall Academic Workshop

Mobile Chemistry: Structure Databases in Your Palm and Your Pocket

Robin Martin, Antony Williams, and Valery Tkachenko

Abstract

PDAs entertain many scientists nowadays...and they are either in their Palm or their Pocket. The utility of the PDA has been generally focused on providing access to personal information yet it is an ideal platform to access Chemical Information. Periodic Tables have been available for a while yet access to more general tables of chemical data have been lacking. In this presentation I will provide an overview of various types of chemical information which has been made available on both Palm OS and Pocket PC including the ability to display chemical structure databases. At present it is possible to carry a searchable database of >20,000 structures on an 8 Mbyte Palm computer. I will also provide an overview of the ability to scan 2D barcodes using either PDA and convert these barcodes directly into chemical structures for viewing.

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