Sci mobile apps v3

Making big discoveries on a small computer www.scimobileapps.com

Hardware is getting smaller Copyright Sean Ekins 2010 1930’s 1980s 1990s Room size Desktop size Not to scale and not equivalent computing power – illustrates mobility Laptop Netbook Phone Watch www.scimobileapps.com

A LITTLE BACKGROUND : computer aided drug design Accelrys UGM 2003 Copyright Sean Ekins 2010 www.scimobileapps.com

Mobile computing – an opportunity to exploit Everything is mobile - Devices smaller Chemists move from e-notebook – tablet pc – to smart phones / devices iPhone etc What apps could we provide for data, collaboration etc? Ekins et al Book chapter In Press Williams – chemistry world May 2010 www.scimobileapps.com

Ekins et al Book chapter In Press, Arnold and Ekins, PharmacoEconomics 28: 1-5, 2010 There are many areas for mobile devices / software to impact R&D www.scimobileapps.com

Sophisticated software may eventually be available as Apps
So far ..just simple drawing and properties
No docking Apps
No pharmacophores or similar Apps
No Apps to compete with major products
Issues – size of viewing area – less so with iPad
But.. it will change..
Phone enables anyone to draw a molecule and predict properties
Just think of the possibilities
Impact on computer aided drug design Copyright Sean Ekins 2010 www.scimobileapps.com

Why are science Apps important?
Exposure to huge audience with “smart phones”
Make science more accessible = >communication
Hardware is powerful
Mobile – take a phone into field and do science more readily than a laptop
Sturdy
Apps can be a subset of a desktop solution
Bite size chunk of program
www.scimobileapps.com

What stimulated this effort? www.scimobileapps.com

Chemistry Apps
Structure Drawing
Database Access
Chemical Reactions
Biological Data
Biomolecule visualization
Publishers, publications and their management
eBooks

How do you find useful science apps?
Search in App store
Returns a myriad of Apps many not even appropriate
Many are flashcards when you want an App that does something else
How do you find the right App quickly
No definitive Encyclopedia of Science Apps
No book on science Apps!!!!

www.scimobileapps.com Science Apps + Wiki =

Why is Sci Mobile Apps Important?
Make science Apps more accessible
Find the Gaps – which Apps are missing
Stimulate others to develop new Apps to fill gaps
Get the crowd to populate it – Wiki
Should always be up to date compared to a paper / review

Public Launch June 21 2011 via chemconnector blog Twitter, facebook etc. www.scimobileapps.com

How to add Apps? www.scimobileapps.com

= + Who are we? + The Crowd Antony J. Williams Sean Ekins www.scimobileapps.com

Thanks to all contributors - Simplifying finding science Apps so you can make discoveries - www.scimobileapps.com

Sci mobile apps v3

by Sean Ekins on Jun 22, 2011

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