Finding scientific iPhone (and iPad) applications on the iTunes AppStore can be a bit hit and miss so I thought I’d compile a list of those that I am aware of, feel free to send me details of any I’ve missed.
3D Brain Use your touch screen to rotate and zoom around 29 interactive structures. Discover how each brain region functions, what happens when it is injured, and how it is involved in mental illness. Each detailed structure comes with information on functions, disorders, brain damage, case studies, and links to modern research
3D Cell Learn about the cell and all its structures using our new 3D Cell
3D Cell stain simulation Learn about the cell and all its structures using the new 3D Cell tool. Enjoy the ability to rotate the cell 360 degrees and zoom in on any cell structure. Choose from a list of cell structures to learn more about how each structure functions and relates to the other components of the cell. Dive even deeper and create your own stained cell image by using Molecular Probes™ products.
ACS Mobile provides up-to-the-minute access to recent peer-reviewed research publications across the Society's research journals, including the Journal of the American Chemical Society.
Atom in a box an aid for visualizing the Hydrogenic atomic orbitals, the three-dimensional states that the electron occupies in Hydrogen, a prime and otherwise unwieldy example of Quantum Mechanics. It interactively shows what the Hydrogen atom "looks" like.
Atoms in Motion a fully interactive atomistic simulation that uses sophisticated Molecular Dynamics (MD) algorithms to perform computational chemistry calculations right on your iPad.
Ball & Stick is a high-quality molecular visualization app for the iPad. The app is perfect for people interested in molecular modeling, structural biology, biochemistry, and computer-aided drug design.
BioRad Real-Time PCR iPhone Application is an easy-to-use qPCR resource that includes the qPCR Guide for researchers who want to learn more about designing, analyzing, and optimizing real-time PCR experiments
Buffers a tool for designing buffer solutions for pH control. Buffers is useful both as a handy reference of available buffering agents and as an accurate, portable buffer calculator for chemical, biochemical and biological research.
CalcKit - lets you create your own personalized calculators
Call For Papers helps you keep track of information about upcoming conferences and journal publications. It retrieves the data from WikiCFP, the number one community resource on the Internet, which is used by the majority of researchers and education institutions to announce paper submission deadlines
The Cell Alerts iPhone application allows you to keep up to date with articles published in Cell Press research journals, and upcoming conferences in your field.
chemCal is a basic chemistry concentration (molarity, moles per liter) and dilutions calculator for students of chemistry, biology, biochemistry, and biomedical sciences at school, college or university.
ChemDoodle Mobile is a calculator for drawn organic structures. ChemDoodle Mobile calculates many properties that are useful for structure and mass spectrum analysis, including an isotopic distribution. It also simulates interactive NMR spectra that are useful for research in the lab. Now you can take the power of ChemDoodle with you everywhere.
ChemDoodle Web Components, while not specifically an iPhone/iPad app these web components allow chemical depiction on all platforms.
ChemiCal ChemiCal is a simple chemistry application that takes a given chemical formula and returns the mass of one mole of that chemical.
Chemical Safety Data Sheets - ICS This application displays International Chemical Safety Cards [ICSC] produced by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the International Labour Office (ILO), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Chemistry Formulas This application can provide every possible formulas for anyone who study in AP Chemistry, including Common ions and their charges, Equations and Constants, Chemistry Fundamentals, Atoms and Subatomic Particles, Molecular mass, Molecular formula and empirical formula, Balancing Chemical equations, Temperature conversion, Ideal Gas Laws.
ChemSpider Mobile allows you to search the ChemSpider chemical database, provided by the Royal Society of Chemistry on your iPhone or iPad. Compounds can be searched by structure or by name, and browsed within the app. Results can be examined by jumping to the web page. Search structures are drawn using the powerful MMDS molecular diagram editor.
ChemWeight - a molecular weight calculator oriented toward organic and medicinal chemists
Chemjuice chemical drawing package.
ChemJuice Grande drawing package and more designed to take advantage of the extra real estate on the iPad.
ChemMobi uses Symyx, ChemSpider and Discoverygate webservices to access online chemical information.
Chem Solver Lite This app provides easy to access chemistry information and tables as well as equation solvers for almost all general chemistry equation.
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.
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.
Compounds Stoichiometry or "grams-to-moles" calculations.
DailyCalcs Molarity Calculator, Dilution Calculator, Molecular Weight Calculator, Cell Culture Reference Charts, Unit Converter
DASGIP iApp allows remote control of your parallel bioreactor systems via Wifi or 3G mobile networks
DataAnalysis is a general purpose iPad App for the plotting and analysis of all types of data that can be formulated as x,y pairs. The program can be used easily by both students and professionals. It is particularly useful for quick analysis of various types of data by curve fitting, analysis of data via a standard curve.
Dilutions Dilutions contains several calculators that help perform serial dilutions, molar and percentage calculations as well as make SDS-Page gels.
Epicentral is a network-based iPhone and iPodTouch application that displays a global map (and an earthquake-activity timeline when the phone is rotated) and list of earthquake epicenters for events that occurred during the last week.
EleMints a totally interactive Periodic Table for the iPhone and iPod Touch. However, it not only offers a Periodic Table, but also a Plot Graph, Element listing, Molar Mass Calculator.
Epocrates info on drug dosing and side effects.
Fluorescence Spectraviewer Plot and compare spectra, check the spectral compatibility for many fluorophores and email the configuration to yourself or others in the lab in a clear printable format. This mobile SpectraViewer acts as an extension of our online SpectraViewer tool which can be found at www.invitrogen.com/spectraviewer.
GeneticCode handy reference tool for students and researchers.
Geograph GIS system.
Graph application makes several 2D and 3D graph types on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You can insert your own data from the pasteboard, fetch it from web servers and insert and edit using a table interface. Data can also be formed via linear regression, location and accelerometer sensors. Graphs can be animated, rotated, zoomed, panned and altered in various ways. Thousands of graphic, graph and data attributes, including customized artwork, autoscaling and many other attributes can be set using a skinning version of Vvidget Builder (an optional Mac OS X desktop application) and applying the skin to this Graph application.
Google Earth is useful for geologists
Graphbook is a collection of 2D, 3D and 4D interactive graphing examples from SpaceTime. Move, pinch and rotate graphs and fractals in real-time
GraphCalc free graphing calculator
Green Solvents Reference card for chemical solvents, with data regarding their "greenness": safety, health and environmental effects. Based on the American Chemical Society GCI Pharmaceutical Roundtable Solvent Selection Guide, Version 2.0 (April 2011).
iChemistry Chemical Equation Balancer and Stoichiometry Calculator.
iCut DNA lets you search the Restriction Enzyme Database (REBASE) for enzymes and the DNA nucleotide sequences they cleave.
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.
iHyperChem This free version allows you to create,display, and manipulate molecular structures. It does not allow calculations nor does it have the ability to send computations to a Server Version of Professional HyperChem. Nor does it allow bidirectional transfer of molecules from a Professional HyperChem server as does the Level 1 product.
iHyperChem Level 1 This Level 1 version of iHyperChem allows you to create and manipulate molecular systems and explore their structure. It also allows WiFi access to any Professional HyperChem server so that molecules, computations, and results can be transferred between the mobile client (iPhone or iPad) and the server. The molecular systems existing on the mobile client are rendered in a variety of ways and can be conveniently rotated, translated, zoomed, etc. HyperChem's traditional selection operation is implemented so that you can explore bond lengths, angles, and torsions as well as other capabilities that selection of a subset of a molecule provides. For example, one can select a side chain and rotate that side chain only.
iKinase, search for Kinase targets by standardized names, identify top-active molecules for each target, and drill-down into more detail
iKinasePro, With iKinasePro not only do you gain access to the most recent release of the Eidogen-Sertanty's Kinase Knowledgebase (KKB), but you can also survey this large database with substructure-, similarity-, and super-similarity searches.
ImageVis3D Mobile import 3D images of medical CT or MRI scans.
iMaths reference for maths
iMolBuilder an application that can view, edit and build molecules in 3D. Users can easily analyze a molecular structure by rotating, moving, and zooming it.
iMolDraw is an application that can view, edit and build molecules in 2D.
iMolview is an app for the iPhone and iPad that lets you browse protein, DNA, and drug molecules in 3D. The app has a direct link to the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and DrugBank and has a fast and easy to use interface. Touching the molecules via the screen allows you to interact immediately with the 3D structures in a unique way. You can zoom in and out, rotate, spin, pan, and clip the 3D molecules with your finger tips
iOS:Chart an interactive chart library of iOS and Mac OSX
iPhysics physics reference
Insensitive (Incredible Nuclear Spin EvolutioN SImulation Tool Intended for Visual Education)
iProtein provides access to the world’s largest repository of protein structures and models - Eidogen-Sertanty's Target Informatics Platform (TIP) that enables researchers with the ability to interrogate the druggable genome from a structural perspective.
iResearch was created to allow the user to read American Institute of Physics article content offline and store articles locally. The application caches all content that it receives, and does require a wireless or wifi connection to obtain the content initially and to subsequently update that content.
IR Spec Check is designed for organic chemists and students to quickly analyze absorbance peaks from an infrared spectroscopy graph. IR Spec Check recognizes over 75 absorbance frequencies and matches frequencies with possible R-groups.
iScience reference for Maths, Physics and Chemistry. There are about 2500 formulas and images which are all very high-quality graphics,
Isotopia is an isotopic distribution calculator and plotter, a molecular mass calculator and an isotopes database.
Isotope Data abundance, half-life, weight, decay modes, spin.
LabAssistant Chemical Compatibility Guide This chemical compatibility guide will allow you to either check what materials will work with the chemicals you are using or planning to use; or to view what compatibility rating given to a material you are planning to use.
LabCal a utility to calculate the molarity, to convert gram and mole and to compute dilutions of stock solutions
LabCalPro enhanced utility to calculate the molarity, to convert gram and mole and to compute dilutions of stock solutions
LabTimer LabTimer is a count-up and alarming count-down multi-timer.
Least Squares computes and displays linear regression of 2D points. To operate copy some x y points, select the Edit tab, paste the points into the text view and then click the Dots or Labels tab. Alternatively, edit the existing data with the keypad and then click the Dots or Labels tab.
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
MathRef a math reference application that includes over 1,400 helpful formulas, figures, tips and examples
Math Touch Visual system-of-equation entry, Numerical precision tracking, Automatic unit conversion, Dimensional analysis, Abstract vector math, Multi-touch plotting, Helpful user warnings, Built-in physical constants & astronomical observations
MetPetDB is a database for metamorphic petrology that is being designed and built by a global community of metamorphic petrologists in collaboration with computer scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as part of the National Cyberinfrastructure Initiative and supported by the National Science Foundation
Mild EleMints 2 Mild EleMints 2 is the interactive Periodic Table for the iPad. It is the free version of EleMints, which not only offers a Periodic Table, but also a Plot Graph, Element listing, Electron Diagram and a wealth of information on every element.
Mobile MIM FDA approved medical imaging and diagnostics
Mobile Molecular Datasheet The Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) provides a way to view and edit chemical structure diagrams on an iPhone, iPod or iPad. The unique and innovative sketcher is optimized for the touchscreen interface, and allows professional quality molecular structures to be drawn quickly and efficiently.
MObile REagents (MORE) is a scientific app that gives you access to over 5 million molecules and 11 million chemical product variations offered by more than 50 different suppliers. Also a picture of a chemical structure taken from the iPhone camera can be converted into a structurally searchable molecule using OSRA (Optical Structure Recognition Application)
Mobile Science - Acceleration records, graphs and emails the iPod/iPhone/iPad accelerometer measurement
Molecules is an application for viewing three-dimensional renderings of molecules and manipulating them using your fingers.
MolPrime is a chemical structure drawing tool based on the unique sketcher from the Mobile Molecular DataSheet
MolSim: real-time 2D molecular simulation of spherical atoms in your pocket... Explore the phase diagram by varying density and temperature.
MolWeight a simple tool for scientists and students that allows calculation of the molecular weight and other key properties of peptides and oligonucleotides from their sequence. In addition, a calculator is provided for determining the molecular weight of any substance from its chemical formula
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.
Named Reactions Pro Named Reactions Pro contains details on over 300 organic reactions, from the acetoacetic ester synthesis to the Zincke reaction. Reactions are fully indexed and searchable, and can be visually browsed through an intuitive "reaction card" view
NatureMobile Read nature on your mobile.
NEBTools brings New England Biolabs’ most popular web tools to your iPhone. Use Enzyme Finder to select a restriction enzyme by category or recognition sequence, or search by name to find information on any NEB enzyme
Nice Molecules is an app to discover the chemical molecules that are all around us and are the basis of life, that you hear about in the news, that have played in important role in history or in industrial processes.
NIOSH Chemical Hazards In addition to the complete contents of the pocket guide it includes the following enhanced functionality: - Searchable Index of Chemical Names, Synonyms and Trade Names - Searchable index of CAS Numbers - Searchable index of RTECS Numbers
NMR Isotopes allows you to keep reference data for all NMR-active isotopes in your pocket.
OnScreen DNA Model™ 2.0 for iPad provides students (and all persons interested in DNA) with a way to reach a deeper, more intuitive understanding of DNA structure
OnScreen DNA Model™ 2.0 for iPhone and iPod Touch
Organic Chemistry Express Organic Chemistry Express is the most comprehensive reference tool 800 organic compounds, 400 organic reactions, 200 reaction mechanism.
Papers puts your entire research literature database in your pocket, available at your fingertips wherever you go.
PCalc scientific calculator
Periodic Table of the Elements a standard periodic table of the elements.
Merck Periodic Table, Everything you need to know about the chemical elements From classification to properties to their history of discovery. Available in English, German, French, and Spanish
Physical Constants Always have ready the values of 300+ physical constants
PocketCAS, A full Computer Algebra System in your pocket.
Primer Jot A molecular biology application which will keep track of your oligos, all in one place, calculate the primer melting temperature (Tm) (based on a standard set of conditions) and categorize it, assign a project, as well as physical location details.
Promega The Protocols and Applications Guide provides a gateway to a whole world of information for scientists. Here you will find quick access to technical tips, example data, experimental protocols and multimedia presentations covering most common laboratory procedures.
PubMed on Tap enables researchers to browse PubMed articles and build a personal library. Searches can be narrowed down with advanced settings using Boolean logic operators. EZ-Proxy settings are also available, as well as landscape view and text-size control.
PubGet for iPad delivers full text journal articles straight to your iPad! Read them as PDFs on the spot or save them to take on the go. Search everything in PubMed, ArXiv, JSTOR, IEEE. Access your library's subscriptions: it's synced with 450 libraries world wide. Immediately get the full text PDF through your library.
Quick Graph It allows you to plot equations and can be useful for students taking math classes such as calculus or physics. It can plot 2D and 3D equations, using all of the standard graphic coordinates: cartesian, polar, spherical and cylindrical. Up to 3 equations can be visualized simultaneously, in both 2D and 3D modes.
Reaction101 is a reaction editing and searching tool built using the same platform as the Mobile Molecular Datasheet
RSC Mobile is a mobile app which provides up-to-the-minute access to RSC journals. Full text HTML and PDF access via wireless networks for subscribing institutions/organisations. The latest news from the RSC Publishing Platform. Ability to save articles for offline reading - and to save the abstract for articles where the reader doesn't have full text access. Sharing of content via email, Twitter or Facebook
SAR Table designed for creating tables containing a series of related structures, their activity/property data, and associated text. Structures are represented by scaffolds and substituents, which are combined together to automatically generate a construct molecule
Scatter Graph shows a 3D scatter graph. To operate copy some x y z points, select the Edit tab, paste the points into the text view and then click the Dots or Labels tab. Alternatively, edit the existing data with the keypad and then click the Dots or Labels tab. The figure below shows Scatter Graph in action
Science Mobile Read summaries and abstracts from Science, Science Translational Medicine, and Science Signaling.
Seismograph Measure everything that vibrates, shakes or moves. Or why not an actual earthquake
slcalc is a programmable calculator for engineers, scientists, and students in Science and Technology.
SignalScope for iPhone OS devices is a real-time analysis toolset, suitable for use in areas such as acoustics, audio, electronics, and vibration. Out of the box, SignalScope includes an FFT-based spectrum analyzer and an oscilloscope.
SignalSuite adds precision signal generator capabilities to your iPhone or iPod touch. SignalSuite’s three advanced, audio-band signal generators produce various types of periodic signals, broadband noise, and frequency sweep
Solutions Whether you are a chemist, biologist or student, no one likes the calculations needed before making chemical solutions
SoundMeter has arrived to turn your iPhone into a handheld sound level meter
Statistics 1 is an E-Textbook with lessons, calculators, simulations, quizzes, flashcards, decision trees, a glossary, and a list of formulas and symbols.
Strike and Dip turns your iPhone into a pocket transit. Take strike & dip measurements, bearings, plunge, and all that geological goodness, while simultaneously getting your latitude, longitude, and elevation
Surface Graph shows a 3D surface and 2D point fill graph. To operate copy some z points, select the Edit tab, paste the points into the text view, enter the grid x and y lengths and then click the 2D or 3D tab. Alternatively, edit the existing data with the keypad and then click the 2D or 3D tab.
The Chemical Touch Explore the properties of the elements, the standard amino acids, and the nucleobases.
The Elements beautifully crafted periodic table with full description of all elements.
TouchPlot a grapher with touch abilities
Variables introduces a great new, yet completely natural, way of building statistical models. You simply position the variables, connect them to define the dependence structure and get all the details about the model at your fingertips! Variables assists you by suggesting possible model configurations it can handle. And it even animates all the transitions when you make changes so that you can instantly see the impact.
The Vvidget application makes several 2D and 3D graph types on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. You can insert your own data from the pasteboard, fetch it from web servers and insert and edit using a table interface. Data can also be formed via linear regression, location and accelerometer sensors. Graphs can be animated, rotated, zoomed, panned and altered in various ways.
Wolfram|Alpha--Get answers. Access expert knowledge. Wherever you are. Whenever you need it.
Yield101 is a companion to Reaction101 that provides features that are useful for synthetic chemists at the lab bench. It is the second app developed in conjunction with with Eidogen-Sertanty. Yield101 is built from the same components as is the Mobile Molecular DataSheet, and is available for iOS based devices. Yield101 is an app designed to be useful to bench chemists: starting with a chemical reaction and some quantity information, it will calculate missing data, such as yields.
Antony Williams (aka ChemSpiderman) has published a talk he gave on “Mobilizing Chemistry - Chemistry in Our Hands” on slideshare
Mobilizing Chemistry - Chemistry in Our Hands
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Chemistry in the hand: The delivery of structure databases and spectroscopy gaming on mobile devices
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Page Updated 4 January 2012