ChemSpider Blog

I have reported previously on rich text editing capabilities that we have been testing. The text-editing capabilities have been rolled out this evening to beta-testers (if you wish to be a beta-tester you must register on ChemSpider here and request beta-tester status).

The text editing capabilities show up when you are logged into ChemSpider. The capabilities show up with the “Description” link and is listed with all of the other capabilities to allow information to be associated with a record. At the top of a record view you will see

Click on Description and it will open up a simple Rich text Editor, similar to that you would see on Wikipedia, and allowing you to copy-paste rich text or edit standard text and insert hyperlinks etc.

We would like people to test drive the ability to add descriptions to record views. Please go ahead and start working with it and provide us feedback.

By the time this blog post shows up in most inboxes the Leadscope dataset of over 150,000 structures will have deposited onto the ChemSpider database. From their data source page on ChemSpider:

“Leadscope develops and markets a chemoinformatics application that provides seamless access to research data. It incorporates chemically based data mining, visualization and advanced informatics techniques (prediction tools,scaffold generators, etc.). The platform, coupled with our content databases, provides a comprehensive in silico discovery solution.”

There are many unique structures in the collection (example here) and these link through to the Leadscope website as shown here and information about their commercial databases (example). We’re happy to welcome Leadscope to our family of depositors and look forward to helping ChemSpider users learn about their databases.