The American Chemical Society has just launched its flavor of social networking.  ACS claims it’s the world’s largest scientific society for chemical professionals. It’s safe. It’s searchable. It’s FREE. And it’s a great way to stay connected with the best and brightest. 

• Create and build your personal scientific network
• Find friends and colleagues by career, education, local section, and divisions
• Collaborate and share scientific research
• Search for publications information
• Highlight your involvement with ACS
• Keep up-to-date with ACS membership activities

For more information go to :  ACS Member Network

I know all you chemistry folks are busy with the annual conference of the American Chemical Society here in Philadelphia this week, but I hope you can spare some energy to attend this seminar.  I have spoken about ChemSpider in this blog earlier (August 1, 2008).  This is well worth your time.

The Department of Chemistry will host a seminar, “ChemSpider: Weaving a Web of Chemistry,” with Anthony Williams, president of ChemSpider, on Thursday, August 21, 2008 from 2 to 3 p.m. in room 109 Disque Hall (32nd Street between Market and Chestnut Streets).

ChemSpider is a new resource to provide access to chemistry-related information and has been built with a structure-centric focus and the application of community-based curation to enhance the quality of public domain data. The ChemSpider platform presently holds information for close to  22 million chemicals and provides semantic links to more than 130 datasources. This presentation will provide an overview of ChemSpider, a vision of future directions and a hands-on tutorial on how to use the system.

This event is free and open to the public.

For more information or to RSVP, email professor Jean-Claude Bradley at  Jean-Claude.Bradley@drexel.edu.

ChemSpider is a free access service providing a structure centric community for chemists. Providing access to millions of chemical structures and integration to a multitude of other online services ChemSpider is the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information.

ChemSpider is a chemistry search engine. It has been built with the intention of aggregating and indexing chemical structures and their associated information into a single searchable repository and make it available to everybody, at no charge.

ChemSpider is a value-added offering of publicly available chemical structures since many additional properties have been added to each of the chemical structures. ChemSpider offers the fastest chemical structure searches available online and delivered with the flexibility and usability necessary to encourage repeat usage. A quick browse of the manual will help understand how ChemSpider can be of value.