The Living Molecules app allows you to turn chemical structures into a molecular glyph, which can be used on documents like posters, manuscripts or web pages. Anyone who has the app can use the camera to capture molecular glyphs, and bring the chemical data onto their device. A molecular glyph is the chemical equivalent of a QR code.

The glyph contains just enough information to establish a source and identification for the data, so that the content can be downloaded from the internet and viewed:

I’ve been trying this out over the weekend and whilst it works, it looks like it is very resource intensive and my old iPhone 4 really struggled. This looks like an interesting project and it will be interesting to see how it develops.

I’ve added it to the list of mobile science applications.

This is the first major scientific text that I’ve seen that specifically aims for the iPad rather than hardback books, and I suspect it will become the norm in the future. When scientific text books are so expensive, and need regular updates this becomes a very attractive model. The Portable Chemists Consultant

This is a chemistry book like no other. This is your virtual consultant. If you work in any chemical company, our aim is to make this your survival guide. This is your portable consultant, available 24/7, and offering advice that cannot be obtained by cursory use of search engines. This consultant doesn't charge an hourly rate, has no ego, and is being constantly updated and improved upon. At no additional cost. In Part 1, The Portable Chemist's Consultant places particular emphasis on heterocyclic chemistry since this is the bedrock of society-shaping materials such as medicines and agrochemicals. Beautiful interactive graphics are designed to rapidly solve your problems by being both immersive and rapidly absorbed. In Part 2, a broad coverage of solutions to the most encountered problems and issues of industrial chemists is presented

I just noticed an ElementalDB update appear on my iPad.

According to the release notes there have been substructure search performance improvements.

ElementalDB allows you search and explore the 1.2 million structure CHEMBL database locally on your iPad.

There is a review here.

I just noticed that an update for ChemDoodle was available on my iPhone.

According to the release notes this includes

• Support for the iPhone 5
• IUPAC Naming
• 3D coordinate generation and viewer
• Added empirical formula to calculations
• Added rotatable bond count to calculations
• Added total electron count to calculations
• Added vdW volume to calculations
• Added complexity to calculations
• Fixed slow performance issues on iPad in landscape mode
• Fixed MolGrabber search issues
• Fixed issue where the back button wouldn’t appear on the last help page
• Fixed login issues
• Performance improvements
• General improvements and fixes

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

ElementalDB is now available on the AppStore.

https://itunes.apple.com/app/elementaldb/id627422287

Sketch and search within the 1.2M compound ChEMBL 15 dataset. Searching, property calculation and depiction is done from the stored 2D co-ordinates from ChEMBL within the app on your device

There is an interesting article in the Journal of Cheminformatics regarding an app I’ve highlighted previously, TB Mobile: a mobile app for anti-tuberculosis molecules with known targets.

TB Mobile may assist researchers as part of their workflow in identifying potential targets for hits generated from phenotypic screening and in prioritizing them for further follow-up. The app is designed to lower the barriers to accessing this information, so that all researchers with an interest in combatting this deadly disease can use it freely to the benefit of their own efforts.

There are more mobile science applications listed here.

Four new mobile science applications from ZappyLab a provider of mobile and web applications for scientists. They focus on creating tools that are helpful to researchers and laboratory workers.

GrowthCurves is a portable spreadsheet for researchers working with cell cultures.

PubChase is a science literature search and recommendation tool, available online or on your mobile device

Lab Counter is a tallying app, specifically designed for the scientists and medical laboratory workers.

Tetrad is a utility for yeast geneticists to score yeast tetrad dissections.

They have all been added to the mobile science page.

The SAR Table app has had the ability to match scaffolds to molecules for a while now, but as of the latest release (1.3.4) just submitted to the AppStore, it will be able to match more than one scaffold at once. The actual process of performing the scaffold match is provided by a webservice (molsync.com).

More details here.

After I wrote the article about javascript based molecule viewers I’ve been sent a couple of links demonstrating their use. One particularly interesting one is MolCalc an online molecular calculator that uses JSmol to build and render structures.

Once the molecule has been built and minimised using the MMFF force field you can then use GAMESS to calculate a range of molecular properties.

MolCalc is distributed through GitHub under the GPL license github.com/jensengroup/molcalc. You must obtain a copy of the GAMESS code separately from www.msg.ameslab.gov/gamess/download.html Since this uses javascript for the interface it will work on mobile devices.

Dotmatics have announced an update to their chemical sketching application Elemental to version 1.5. No details of any changes are available.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Chocolat a text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools has been updated.

There are more text editors here.

The latest version of Green Solvents (1.1) is now available on the AppStore. Worth noting is the fact that the app is now sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Dotmatics have announced an update to their chemical sketching application Elemental. Version 1.4 includes an improved calculated properties engine.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

There are a couple of things happening in the mobile science space that I thought I should highlight.

The SAR Table app is going through some major improvements at the moment. The recently added matrix view is being modified to make it more interactive.

Recently the Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) was updated with the ability to parse ChemDraw files in particular it understands reaction schemes.

It can extract reaction schemes, and reassemble them into the more highly structured form that MMDS uses, i.e. segregated into individual components, where each distinct part of the reaction is characterised as a reactant, reagent or product, and is described by name/structure/both, and stoichiometry.

The ChemSpider synthetic pages reactions are stored in Chemdraw format and can thus be imported into MMDS, the sequence of actions is shown here

There is also a presentation by Antony Williams describing work at the Royal Society of Chemistry to support mobile science.

The latest data from Net Applications is available and the continued rise in mobil computing is clearly seen. In January 2013 mobile devices account for nearly 12% of web usage, with iOS holding just over 60% and Android 24%. Blackberry languishes at under 2% and it remains to be seen whether there new offerings will revive the once market leading company. The iPad is the most popular mobile device followed by iPhone.

On the desktop it is pretty much unchanged, Windows still account for around 90% (with XP unchanged at 39%) and Mac just over 7%. Mac OS X 10.8 is the most popular Mac operating system.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

With SPRESImobile, a wealth of chemical reaction information is readily available at your fingertips from a mobile device (iPhone, iPad). You can search the entire ChemReact database easily with this highly intuitive app

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

I just noticed that version 1.4.1 of the Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) has just been submitted to the iTunes AppStore, and its notable new feature is the ability to select a datasheet and calculate structure-based properties. A new column is created for each selected property, and the calculation feature is applied to each row. The available properties currently include molecular weight/formula, log P, molar refractivity and topological polar surface area. The functionality is provided by the molsync.com webservice.

There is more information on the Cheminformatics blog.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Database searching has now been added to MolPrime+ for iOS. The latest version, 1.1, has been submitted to the AppStore and should be available soon. As soon as it is approved, it will be possible to easily search the PubChem and ChEBI databases, by name or structure, and use the results within the app.

There is a detailed description here

There many more iPhone/iPad apps on the mobile science page.

Yet another publication describing the impact of mobile science.

We are perhaps at a turning point for making cheminformatics accessible to scientists that are not computational chemists. The proliferation of mobile devices has seen software or ‘apps’ developed that can be used for sophisticated chemistry applications. These apps can offer capabilities to the practicing chemist that are approaching those of conventional desktop-based software, while still apps tend to be focused on a relatively small range of tasks. Mobile apps that can pull in and integrate public content from many sources relating to molecules and data are also being developed. Apps for drug discovery are already evolving rapidly and are able to communicate with each other to create workflows, as well as perform more complex processes, enabling informatics aspects of drug discovery (i.e. accessing data, modeling and visualization) to be done anywhere by potentially anyone. We will describe how these cheminformatics apps can be used productively and some of the future opportunities that we predict.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Mobile science continues to make inroads, this publication describes the work to make Green Chemistry information more accessible.

Incorporating Green Chemistry Concepts into Mobile Chemistry Applications and Their Potential Uses DOI

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

An interesting post on Cheminformatics 2.0

the SAR Table app has a not-yet-released feature which allows the current set of structures and their activities (“responses”) to be packed off to a webservice, which proceeds to construct a model based on structural features, then predicts values for any structures that don’t have values for that particular property.

Mobile science is coming on in leaps and bounds.

There many more iPhone/iPad apps on the mobile science page.

Datasets are ubiquitous in chemistry research and education. For fields involving organic chemistry, these datasets often take the form of Structure data files (SD files). Although an assortment of tools can present SD files on desktops and laptops, few options exist for doing so on increasingly-useful tablets and phones StructureMate™, aims to bring chemical structure dataset analysis and visualisation to a much wider range of devices. This Universal app runs on both the iPad/iPad Mini and iPhone/iPod Touch families, with custom-built interface for each.

There many more iPhone/iPad apps on the mobile science page.

A few days ago I mention Spotfire for the iPad and a couple of readers sent in details of similar applications.

Tableau mobile is an iPad front-end to an analytics server. Create interactive reports and dashboards in Tableau Desktop then publish them to Tableau Server for secure access on your desktop, or on the web or with your iPad.

Similarly SAP BusinessObjects Mobile connects to the SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform.

Spotfire for the iPad requires access to a TIBCO Spotfire Web Player Server. By default, the app is connected to our public demo gallery so you can start experiencing data in Spotfire immediately. After that, you can connect to your internal server, or you can connect to public servers and explore Spotfire analytical tools.

Now added to the mobile science page.

BioGPS free extensible and customizable gene annotation portal, a complete resource for learning about gene and protein function.

Now added to the mobile science page.

With the release of the iPad mini Xcode has been updated to version 4.5.2 this update includes:-

Support for iPad mini and iPad with Retina display (4th generation).
Additional bug fixes and stability improvements.

Xcode 4.5 includes

• SDKs for OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion and iOS 6.
• Auto Layout now supported on both OS X and iOS.
• New localization workflow can share a single base .xib or .storyboard file for multiple locales.
• OpenGL debugger for iOS analyzes performance and suggests improvements.
• Debugger watchpoints can be set when running on a connected iOS device.
• Objective-C @synthesize command is generated by default when using properties.
• Objective-C adds literal syntax for numbers, arrays, dictionaries, and expressions.
• Xcode 4.5 runs on both OS X Lion and OS X Mountain Lion.
• Enhanced for the MacBook Pro with Retina display.

Labguru for iPad is a companion app to the Labguru web application. The app enables Labguru users to conduct and update their experiments from the lab bench. The app makes it possible to run and track multiple experiments, record notes and results while performing an experiment, and to sync the data with the Labguru web application.

My Lab, your iPAD is now a lab notebook, protocols organizer, lab inventory and much more. My lab was conceptualized and developed under the scientific expertise of Mahendra Rao MD PhD and Hue Medscience. My lab is a customizable app that lets you keep your lab data private and enables sharing of the content you want enabling full control of your files. My Lab also includes direct access to Dropbox to store your files for easy access from anywhere

BioTechniques The International Journal of Life Science Methods – Now on Your Mobile Device BioTechniques provides open access to high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on laboratory techniques and protocols. Now in its 52nd volume, BioTechniques has over 80,000 print subscribers worldwide.

Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile for Apple iPad and Apple iPhone is a mobile analytics application that allows users to view, analyze and take action on Oracle Business Intelligence content.

The Journal of Cell Biology app allows immediate access to full-text articles. The original international cell biology journal, JCB now travels wherever you do. You can read full-text articles anywhere at anytime, even without a network connection. The app, designed for easy reading and browsing on any iOS device

Life Technologies Protocols App provides quick, convenient access to popular Applied Biosystems or Invitrogen product protocols. Each protocol is presented with concise step-by-step instructions, along with easy access to the complete product manual

PNAS, the official journal of the US National Academy of Sciences, is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is published daily online in PNAS Early Edition and weekly in print. Easily access the PNAS table of contents and full text articles directly from your mobile device.

Mol Biology Get all the latest research findings from Molecular Microbiology, including articles yet to be published in an issue. Our iPad-optimised design provides the best browsing experience possible. With a few simple clicks you can quickly and easily move between articles, images and more.

MIQE - qPCR helps you in reviewing scientific works and checking your own experiments, when qPCR is involved. Check your project's compliance to MIQE in minutes, have all required references to hand, and follow qPCR events and new

Cell Imaging HD This mobile app is designed to help you find fluorescent dyes, reagents and protocols for cell biology related fluorescence microscopy applications.

BioLegend Tools , this application provides you with important information about your mouse and human CD Molecules, Cytokines and Chemokines. It also includes BioLegend pathway posters, an antibody usage calculator, and a lab timer.

There is an extensive collection of apps for science on the mobile science page.

Last October when FierceBiotech IT rounded up the top apps in life sciences, the industry was just coming to terms with the potential of mobile devices. Now life science software providers are waking up to the fact that mobile is more than an opportunity, it is a necessity. It is increasingly hard to envisage a successful software company that lacks a mobile strategy.

Read more: 15 mobile apps in Life Sciences - 2012 - FierceBiotechIT

There is an extensive collection of apps for science on the mobile science page.

The TB Mobile app presents over 700 small molecules structures screened versus Mtb and their targets. This data is only available in Collaborative Drug Discovery, Inc. (CDD). To which has been added published data on target, essentiality, links to literature (PubMed), genes (tbdb.org), pathways (TBCyc, which provides a pathway-based visualization of the entire cellular biochemical network) and human homolog information. The structures, names and miscellaneous data for these drugs are stored within the app, and made available for browsing. The drugs can be filtered, searched by name or structure, and viewed in 2D. There are several functions for making use of the data. The app therefore merges cheminformatics and bioinformatics information.

Now added to the mobile science page.

The SPRESImobile app provides access to InfoChem‘s SPRESI database. It runs on Apple iOS devices (iPhones, iPods and iPads) and is free on the iTunes AppStore. The latest version extends the search capabilities to include searching by reaction: various types of exact, substructure and similarity searches can be performed. Furthermore, it is now possible for existing customers of SPRESI to provide their user credentials within the app, which unlocks the entirety of the database content, rather than the default curated ChemReact subset that is made available to all.

More apps are on the mobile science page

ChemDoodle mobile has just been updated

ChemDoodle Mobile is a calculator for drawn organic structures. There are four main windows: Draw, Calculate, Spectra and Help. The Draw window shows a typical ChemDoodle sketcher, where you can draw and store your structures. The Calculate page calculates properties and the Spectra page simulates NMR spectra. All spectra are interactive. The Help page contains a detailed help guide.

Calculations 1. Molecular Formula 2. Molecular Mass 3. Monoisotopic Mass 4. Degree of Unsaturation 5. Hydrogen Bond Acceptors 6. Hydrogen Bond Donors 7. Average Molecular Polarizability 8. Molar Refractivity 9. Polar Surface Area 10. logP Spectra 1. Mass Parent Peak (Isotopic Distribution) 2. 1H NMR 3. 13C NMR

There are more apps on the mobile science page

iOS and OS X Graphing Library Free For Development

VVI today announced the availability of it’s graphing library for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Macs. Version 10.8.3 of the graphing libraries and frameworks, aka Vvidget Code, brings the following achievements:

• Supports deployment to OS X versions 10.6 to 10.8 (Macs) and iOS versions 4.3 to 5.1 (iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch).
• Supports development on OS X versions 10.6 to 10.8 and Xcode 3.2 to 4.4.1.
• Uses native API on deployment platforms for the fastest and most robust possible implementation. That is, Cocoa Touch for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and Cocoa for the Mac.
• Use for development is free.
• Eleven Vvidget-based applications available from VVI on the iTunes App Store for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and on the Mac App Store demonstrate Vvidget Code in actual situations.
• Applications based upon Vvidget Code are free-standing and require no additional installs. Vvidget Code itself can be installed using package installers or shared using free-standing Xcode projects.
• Download and install instructions are at: Download And Install Vvidget Code

Please email sales@vvi.com for additional information.

Net Applications have published the August data for Net market share. For the first time since Net Applications began collecting data the Mac share has topped 7% (7.13%), looking at the different versions of the Mac operating system 10.7 has 34%, 10.6 has 33% and 10.8 (Mountain Lion) has 20% after being available for barely a month.

In the mobile arena there has been little change over the last three months with iOS accounting for 66% and Android 21%, JavaME, Blackberry and Symbian continue to slowly decline.

Schrodinger have just announced the release of PyMOL on the iPad. It is a free download from the App Store. With the app you can:-

• View 3D molecular structures, images, and PDFs
• Search and download data from the PDB, PubChem, Dropbox, or your own custom server.
• Intuitively interactive: rotate, pan, twist, zoom, center, and adjust clipping planes, with simple gestures
• Select atoms, residues, molecules, chains, objects, etc. – just by tapping the screen
• Easy-to-use visualization presets cover the majority of visualization needs such as bond representations and surfaces.
• Distance calculations, structure alignments, anaglyph 3D, and much more

I was wondering when someone would use an iPad as the front-end to a fully featured modelling package running on a remote server, looks like Wavefunction have done a pretty impressive job with taking their sophisticated Spartan computational chemistry package from the desktop to mobile devices.

iSpartan creates molecules as familiar 2D sketches, directly converts these into 3D structures, and calculates low energy conformations. Atomic and molecular properties, NMR and infrared spectra, molecular orbitals and electrostatic potential maps are available from a 5,000 molecule subset of the Spartan Spectra and Properties Database (SSPD). The database may also be searched by substructure. Properties, spectra and graphical models of molecules in the SSPD subset are available for examination.

iSpartan Server is an available add-on to the iSpartan app. iSpartan Server installs on a Windows or Macintosh computer and converts iSpartan from an application whose primary utility is sketching molecules in 2D and visualizing them in 3D, into an open-ended molecular modeling research tool providing access to the full Spartan Spectra and Properties Database (SSPD), currently ~170,000 molecules) and to the computational engines used to produce the data in the SSPD. For molecules not included in the database, connection to iSpartan Server supports calculation of structures, properties, and spectra for all user generated molecules from iSpartan running on the iPad, iPhone, and iPodTouch.

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here

Elemental is the Dotmatics chemistry sketch utility provided at no charge

What's New in Version 1.0

• Copy image to Camera Roll
• Copy Image to Clipboard
• File association (tap and hold to load in Elemental)

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here and a comparison of drawing packages here.

To benefit from the display clarity of devices such as the New iPad, chemicalize.org’s chemical structure image generator (built using Marvin) now handles high DPI displays (Retina displays), that also includes iPhone 4 and most new Android devices. Orientation change and touch events like drag, tap and swipe are enabled now.

A new paper has just been published Redefining Cheminformatics with Intuitive Collaborative Mobile App

The proliferation of mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers has recently been extended to include a growing ecosystem of increasingly sophisticated chemistry software packages, commonly known as apps. The capabilities that these apps can offer to the practicing chemist are approaching those of conventional desktop-based software, but apps tend to be focused on a relatively small range of tasks. To overcome this, chemistry apps must be able to seamlessly transfer data to other apps, and through the network to other devices, as well as to other platforms, such as desktops and servers, using documented file formats and protocols whenever possible. This article describes the development and state of the art with regard to chemistry-aware apps that make use of facile data interchange, and some of the scenarios in which these apps can be inserted into a chemical information workflow to increase productivity. A selection of contemporary apps is used to demonstrate their relevance to pharmaceutical research. Mobile apps represent a novel approach for delivery of cheminformatics tools to chemists and other scientists, and indications suggest that mobile devices represent a disruptive technology for drug discovery, as they have been to many other industries.

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

ChemFormula is a molecular formula and weight calculator ideal for students and anyone else who needs to quickly translate arbitrarily complex formulas into empirical formulas with molecular weights. Written by chemists, it includes support for a large number of common chemical abbreviations, functional groups, and protecting groups.

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

Net Applications provide a monthly snapshot of the usage market share for various operating systems and platforms and while it is difficult to draw any conclusions from month to month changes it is interesting to go back and look at the change over longer time periods occasionally.

The June 2012 Mac desktop share stands at 6.72%, in June 2011 it was 5.67%, in June 2010 5.28%, in June 2009 4.74%, and in June 2008 3.70% so in the 4 years of records the Mac desktop share has nearly doubled.

In 2009 with the first analysis of the mobile usage market distribution iOS accounted for nearly 40%, JavaME 36%, Symbian 15% with Android on 2% since then we have seen dramatic changes in the market share with iOS now accounting for over 65%, Android up to 20%, JavaME down to 10% and Symbian almost eliminated with less than 2%. Mobile devices now account for more than 8% of the browsing usage up from around 2% two years ago.

The iPad accounts for nearly 37% of the mobile browsing usage and the iPhone 27%.

There is a paper describing ODDT Open Drug Discovery Teams app.

Investigators of rare and neglected diseases can access some of the latest research in the field, plus data about the disorders themselves, through a recently launched free app for Apple devices.

The Approved Drugs app, which came out on the iTunes AppStore just a few days ago, is about to get its first update, whenever v1.0.1 gets approved. The update deals with the loading performance that currently incurs a bit of a hit when the app first loads, and can overload older devices that have less memory (i.e. crash). The reason the loading time does/did take awhile is that the data for 1300 drugs with 2D & 3D structures, enumerated tautomers, and various other adjunct data uses up quite a bit of memory, and it needs to be randomly accessible. The XML datasheet format used to store the data is suitable for streaming, but not at all for accessing arbitrary data entries without loading the whole thing into memory. The solution is a little bit inconvenient: invent a custom format for the read-only data that is indexed, so the app can rapidly scan the contents, in any order, without having to parse it all first.

Registered Apple Developers can now access over 100 session videos to get an in-depth look at the latest in iOS and OS X.

https://developer.apple.com/videos/wwdc/2012

Beilstein Journals App is available free of charge for iOS. Use this app to read all articles of the two Open Access journals Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.

Have a look at the mobile science page for more science apps for the iPhone and iPad.

Molsoft has just released a new version of iMolview an app that lets you browse protein, DNA, and small molecules in 3D on the iPhone and iPad.

The key new features include:

• support for high resolution retina display in iPad3
• simultaneous display of multiple proteins and superposition
• side-by-side stereo
• new tools for measuring and displaying distances and angles
• export fully interactive chemical spreadsheets from ICM-Chemist to the iPad

There is also a video of iMolview in action

Have a look at the mobile science page for more science apps for the iPhone and iPad.

The Approved Drugs app contains over a thousand chemical structures and names of small molecule drugs approved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Structures and names can be browsed in a list, searched by name, filtered by structural features, and ranked by similarity to a user-drawn structure. The detail view allows viewing of a 3D conformation as well as tautomers. Structures can be exported in a variety of ways, e.g. email, twitter, clipboard

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

ChemSpider Mobile v1.1.1 released

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

iKinasePro is now a universal app running on all iOS devices. iKinasePro for iOS4 provides access into Eidogen-Sertanty's Kinase Knowledgebase (KKB) with fast and powerful substructure-, similarity-, and super-similarity searching capability. In addition, you can search the kinome by target name, by finger-drawn chemical structures, and/or tap through a vast array of ring structures to circumnavigate the Kinome from several different perspectives

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

SPRESImobile is an app for Apple iPod, iPhone and iPad mobile devices, developed in collaboration with Eidogen-Sertanty. It provides direct access to ChemReact, a subset of the SPRESI structure and reaction database, which contains more than 400,000 unique reaction types and the related references.

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

One of the challenges of creating apps for mobile devices is making functionality available via the user interface and the limited real estate. The UI of the mobile molecular data sheet (MMDS) has been updated to addresses a minor but persistent inconvenience: previously, the main command bank had to be open in order to exit from any of the editor panels.

There is a listing of mobile science apps here.

It has now been a couple of years since the human genome was first sequenced and we are now seeing companies offering personal genome sequencing. Illumina are now offering MyGenome an iPad app that allows you to explore a real human genome. In due course they hope to allow you to explore your own genome.

There is more information about the app here.

Now added to the mobile science page.

Reagents, This application details the structures and functions of >80 reagents encountered in typical introductory organic chemistry courses.

Chem+ is a chemical reference for your iPad. Databases Include: * NIOSH Pocket Guide (NPG) * Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) * Toxicity (TOX) * the Emergency Response Guidebook (ERG)

Elemental from Dotmatics a Chemistry Sketch Utility

Elemental is the Dotmatics chemistry sketch utility provided at no charge within many Dotmatics products. Now provided as a FREE app on the iTunes store.

There is a list of mobile science apps here.

The latests marketshare data from NetApplications is available, and while there has been a small increase in the Mac desktop share over the year up to 6.53%, perhaps the more interesting feature is the steady rise of mobile browsing. Over the year there has been a 50% increase in the use of mobile devices (smartphones+tablets) from less than 5% to 7.3%. Much of this is driven by iOS which now accounts for 63% of the mobile market share.

Looking at the weblog for the Macinchem website the results are similar with iOS accounting for over 7% of the visitors, software vendors need to think about support for mobile platforms if they have not already.

In this screencast BioTeam shows how it can orchestrate an Accelrys Pipeline Pilot experiment running on a remote cloud (BT Compute) via Apple iOS Siri voice control.

Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) is now available on the iTunes Store.

The idea behind ODDT is that there are many rare of neglected diseases that might benefit from collaborative efforts from scientists from multiple disciplines, ODDT is an application that supports informal interactions, provides a means to explore relevant information in a flipboard like interface in particular information tagged by other scientists with similar interests. The image below gives you an idea of the topics currently discussed.

This slideshow explains the genesis of the project, and how it has evolved.

So why not fire up iTunes and download the free app and get involved?

The Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) has been updated. Two major usability enhancements:

(1) Additional tool banks on the left and right side of the sketcher provide simplified drawing tools that are more familiar to users of desktop chemical drawing software.

(2) A tooltip system provides tips, live demonstrations and links to documentation.

SPRESImobile provides direct access to ChemReact, a subset of the SPRESI structure and reaction database, which contains more than 400,000 unique reaction types and the related references. SPRESImobile allows searching by name and structure queries, exact, substructure and All-in-one (Flex) search. There is a list of iOS applications on the mobile science page.

I’ve just added Brain Lab to the list of mobile science applications Brain Lab is a brain cell simulator, currently it offers

1. A passive integrate and fire model
2. A full Hodgkin-Huxley model with sodium and potassium channels
3. A Library to learn more about brain science

Brain Lab offers real scientific brain cell models that can be used by anyone, no matter if you are a student, a scientist, or someone who is just interested in brain science. To carry out your experiments, they have set up a Lab for you with all the necessary equipment. If you need to brush up your brain science knowledge or look up a specific technical term, you can go to your Library and read it up. 

The latest data from Net Applications is in, Mac OS X is up to around 7% whilst Windows is now down to just below 92%.

iOS continues to dominate the mobile/tablet market (60%), with Android (19%) and Java ME (14%) being the only others in to double figures.

The Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) project is a mobile app primarily intended as a research topic aggregator of open science data integrated from various sources on the internet. It exists to facilitate interdisciplinary teamwork and to relieve the user from data overload. Initial research topics include areas of chemistry and adjacent molecule-oriented biomedical sciences, with an emphasis on those which are most amenable to open research at present. The ODDT project uses a free mobile app for iOS-based devices (iPhone, iPod and iPad) as the hub. The app has a Flipboard-inspired interface, and serverside infrastructure for hosting data and value added services. The project is open to participation from anyone, and much of the content is derived from public sources but is amenable to commercial data input and they are now looking for alpha testers. One of the key components is a back-end server that is in charge of monitoring the appearance of tweets with certain hash tags (#tuberculosis, #malaria, #hivaids, #huntingtons, #sanfilipposyndrome and #greenchemistry).

There is a screencast here to give you an idea of the functionality.

VVI® today announced the availability of Vvidget Code, its Graph SDK for iPhone, iPad and Mac, version 10.7.6, bringing the following improvements:

The features are extensive and shown by the Graph app on the iTunes and Mac App Store. All the graphs in those applications are now available in the new version. See the links: Graph for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and Graph for Mac to install those applications and test the Vvidget Code Graph SDK.

A great tip from Dan at Dotmatics, if you want to know how your website might look on an iPhone/iPad use the iOS Simulator in the developers tools.

A chart & graph library for iOS and Mac OS X developers.

• Fully native Objective-C library for direct, easy use in any iOS XCode project.
• Several samples and demo projects to make integration and getting started a snap.
• Over 50 powerful graph types, including bar, line, area, pie, scatter, bubble and waterfall.
• An easy-to-use yet powerful object oriented API gives you full control over your charts with a minimum of effort.
• Real 3D graphs with controls to zoom, pan, rotate and skew!
• Adjust and control every element on every chart. Multiple Y-axis, depth effects, reference lines, scale controls and much more.
• The full power of the PGSDK (charting library of choice for MicroStrategy, IBM/Cognos and many more) now for your mobile application!

iFormulas is a clean, simple, easy to use mathematical formula reference guide. Formulas : Algebra, Calculus, Chemistry, Geometry and Trigonometry. Over 380 formulas, definitions, laws, properties, etc.

MyCalculator is an innovative 2D and 3D graphing calculator featuring One Touch Graphing™ and an innovative memory system to store and recall answers. Just touch the answer bar to store numbers in multiple memory slots.

MathStudio, formerly SpaceTime, is the most comprehensive math app available for iPhone and iPad. Whether you need a simple calculator to do your finances or a replacement for your TI graphing calculator,

MolPrime is a chemical structure drawing tool based on the unique sketcher from the Mobile Molecular DataSheet

Added to the Mobile Science Page.

Chirys Draw is an innovative, best-in-class application for drawing publication-quality molecular structures and reactions. Designed from the ground up for the iPad, Chirys Draw takes advantage of unique multi-touch capabilities to make drawing molecular structures and reactions easy and accurate. Chirys™ Sketch is an innovative, best-in-class application for drawing publication-quality molecular structures and reactions. Designed and built from Chirys Draw, the iPad version, Chirys Sketch takes advantage of unique multi-touch capabilities to make drawing molecular structures easy and accurate.

There are many more applications on the mobile science page.

CMol is a molecular viewer designed specifically for the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch, offering a more powerful system for displaying and understanding biological molecules than has yet been seen on any iOS device.

There are many more applications on the mobile science page.