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SUMMARY:Crawling Across the Web of Chemistry Using ChemSpider - Dr Antony 
 Williams\, VP Strategic Development\, ChemSpider\, RSC\, Wake Forest USA
DTSTART:20091117T141500Z
DTEND:20091117T151500Z
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CONTACT:Susan Begg
DESCRIPTION:ChemSpider is a free access website for chemists built with th
 e intention of providing a structure centric community for chemists. It wa
 s developed to  index available sources of chemical structures and their a
 ssociated data into a single searchable repository and making it available
  to everybody\, at no charge. While there are a large number of databases 
 containing chemical compounds and data available online their inherent qua
 lity\, accuracy and completeness is severely lacking. ChemSpider has provi
 ded a platform so that the chemistry community could contribute to improvi
 ng the quality of data online and expanding the information to include dat
 a such as reaction syntheses\, analytical data\, experimental properties a
 nd linkages to other valuable resources. It has grown into a resource cont
 aining over 21 million unique chemical structures from over 200 data sourc
 es.\nThis presentation will provide an overview of ChemSpider and its valu
 e to chemists as a search tool\, as a public repository of information and
  how it can become one of the primary foundations of internet-based chemis
 try. I will also discuss the vision for ChemSpider and some of the lofty g
 oals we are setting for the system moving forward.\n
LOCATION:Unilever Lecture Theatre\, Unilever Centre for Molecular Informat
 ics\, Dept. of Chemistry
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