The UJ Library subscribes from 2008 for "Nature Geoscience" magazine. The access is through the Library webpage: http://www.uj.ac.za/library >Database> A-to-Z list> type the title
If you haven't look at the journal yet, these are the highlights of this years January-May issues:
* In May 2008, Volume 1 No 5 pp281-338 you will find some interesting articles on:
- The drive for fuel - p281
- Thirst for energy - pp283 - 286
- Carbon cycle: Checking the thermostat - pp289 - 290
- Geochemistry: Leftovers from core formation - pp290 - 291
- Planetary science: Saturn's southern eye - p291
- Atmospheric chemistry: Pollution meets sea salt - pp292 - 293
- Structural geology: Stressed rocks - p293
- Palaeoclimatology: A tale of two climates - pp294 - 295
- Seismology: Do faults shimmy before they shake? - pp295 - 296
- Stepwise transition from the Eocene greenhouse to the Oligocene icehouse - pp329 - 334
* In April 2008, Volume 1 No 4 pp205-280 some of the highlights are:
- Climate predictions and observations - p206
- To blog or not to blog? - p208
- Earthquakes: Tsunamigenic Middle Earth - pp211 - 212
- Soil science: Scavenging for scrap metal - pp213 - 214
- Global and regional climate changes due to black carbon - pp221 - 227
* In March 2008, Volume 1 No 3 pp141-204 some of the highlights are:
- Science, geopolitics and the governance of Antarctica - pp143 - 145
- Gender imbalance in US geoscience academia - p148
- Climate science: Predicting dry lands - p153
- Planetary science: Message from Mercury - p155
- Geomorphology: Survive or subside? - pp156 - 157
- Columbia River flood basalts from a centralized crustal magmatic system - pp177 - 180
* In February 2008, Volume 1 No 2 pp77-140 some of the highlights are:
- Climate change: Cool ozone - pp85 - 86
- Palaeoclimate: The riddle of the clays - pp86 - 88
- Volcano seismology: Forecast from noise - pp89 - 90
- Biophysical controls on organic carbon fluxes in fluvial networks - pp95 - 100
- Towards forecasting volcanic eruptions using seismic noise - pp126 - 130
* In January 2008, Volume 1 No 1 pp1-76 some of the highlights are:
- Palaeoceanography: The briny deep - pp9 - 10
- Atmospheric science: Raising the roof - pp12 - 13
- Environmental biology: Trees of extremes - p13
- Geodynamics: The ups and downs of sediments - pp17 - 18
- Widening of the tropical belt in a changing climate - pp21 - 24
- Atmospheric carbon dioxide linked with Mesozoic and early Cenozoic climate change - pp43 - 48
Sunday, June 1, 2008
Science Daily & World Science News
For all scientists/researchers/academics, who want to keep up with the latest in their field, these two website can be very useful:Red Spot—the Third Generation Jupiter's red spots now seem to have a baby—again. The famed and centuries-old "Great Red Spot" at right, actually a giant storm, was joined about three years ago by a second, "Red Spot Jr," the middle red spot in size in this photo. Now, astronomers have noticed yet a third red spot, the even tinier one at left in this Hubble Space Telescope image. Small though it may seem, it is 3,000 miles (4,800 km) wide. Scientists believe it may merge with the Great Red Spot in August. .....
Find the latest/archive research highlights on specific subject area. RSS feeds can give you daily information on latest research. Very useful if you don't want to miss what are researchers around the world doing. Visit my del.icio.us/sciencelibrarian web page to view what articles I have saved lately from ScienceDaily and other webpages: http://del.icio.us/sciencelibrarian
and more. All articles "TAGS" have been group per subject for easy access.
U.S. Climate Change Report released: 27 May 2008
ScienceDaily (May 28, 2008) — The U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) has released "Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 (SAP 4.3): The Effects of Climate Change on Agriculture, Land Resources, Water Resources, and Biodiversity in the United States." The CCSP integrates the federal research efforts of 13 agencies on climate and global change. This report is one of the most extensive examinations of climate impacts on U.S. ecosystems.The report finds that climate change is already affecting U.S. water resources, agriculture, land resources, and biodiversity, and will continue to do so.
The report was written by 38 authors from the universities, national laboratories, non-governmental organizations, and federal service. The report underwent expert peer review by 14 scientists through a Federal Advisory Committee formed by the USDA. The National Center for Atmospheric Research also coordinated in the production of the report.
Click on the links to the report and the press release: 27 May 2008. Final Report is posted. See also press release (27 May 2008) from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).
Science in Africa: Africa's First On-line Science Magazine
Science in Africa On-line magazine has been available since 2001. Have a look at the latest issue and explore the available links from this web page. * No. 64, May 2008 issue you can read about:
- Research identifies best drug combination for patients starting HIV therapy for the first time
- Preparing SA's farmers with a range of options to help them prepare for a water-scarce future
- With the food crunch Kenya launches massive programme to aid small scale farmers
- Undergraduate students develop 'dirt-powered' microbial fuel cells to light Africa
* This Month's (May) features are:
- An evolutionary spin on invasions
- Climate change witness
- Arctic climate change evidence
- Google climate change
* For more on Indaba Biotech go to: http://www.inqababiotec.co.za/new/
* Science Books on Africa & South Africa on: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/books/books.htm
* Events: To view upcoming science events go to: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/events.htm
- Essential Astronomy Workshop: 19-20 June in Cape Town; 26-27 June in Johannesburg
- GLOBE Student Learning Expedition and 12th Annual Conference, 22-28 June in Cape Town
- Extremophiles 2008, 7-11 September 2008 (Extremophiles, organisms thriving in extreme environments, offer a challenge to understanding the fundamentals of molecular and cellular function, and opportunities for sustainable exploitation)
- Bio2Biz and INSITE, 15-17 September 2008. It aims to expose business and industry to international biotechnology trends and developments, while ensuring the country is in line with the international world in terms of the developments in biotechnology.
* Jobs: Looking for a science post, go to: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/Jobs/jobs.htm
* Under Funding you will find information on: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/Funding.htm
- Call for research proposals
- Grants
- Postgraduate Bursaries
- Research Funding Organisations
- Funding News
* Under Organisations you will find 'Who's who' of Science Organisations and Institutes in Africa: http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/Organisations.htm
* You have an option to Register to keep up with the latest information from this web page. http://www.scienceinafrica.co.za/registerSIA.htm
Nature Magazine: 29 May 2008
Have a look at selected topics from Nature Magazine: 29 May 2008,Vol. 453, Number 7195, p563-696* Editorial
- Linking up development p564
An initiative to link scientists in the poorest nations with colleagues around the world deserves support. PDF (87K)
An initiative to link scientists in the poorest nations with colleagues around the world deserves support. PDF (87K)
* Research Highlights
- Zoology: Pretty good p566
- Cell biology: Bean counting p566
- Theoretical physics: Better out than in p566
- Nanotechnology: Nanozapped p566
- Physical chemistry: Growing up bigger p567
- Microbiology: Inner lives p567
* News
- Climate anomaly is an artefact p569
Glitch in the twentieth-century climate record is explained. Full Text PDF (396K)
Glitch in the twentieth-century climate record is explained. Full Text PDF (396K)
- France's research agency splits up p573
CNRS is being carved up into separate institutes. Full Text PDF (124K)
CNRS is being carved up into separate institutes. Full Text PDF (124K)
-Sidelines p575
Scribbles on the margins of science.
Scribbles on the margins of science.
- Funding boost for B-cell-based HIV vaccine research p577
* News Features
- Microbiology: The inside story p578
The human body teems with microbes. Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'.
The human body teems with microbes. Asher Mullard looks at the global efforts to catalogue this vast 'microbiome'.
- Origins of Death p583
Programmed cell death is usually seen as the unique prerogative of plants and animals. So how is it that photosynthetic plankton have been killing themselves by uncannily similar methods for billions of years? Nick Lane investigates.
Programmed cell death is usually seen as the unique prerogative of plants and animals. So how is it that photosynthetic plankton have been killing themselves by uncannily similar methods for billions of years? Nick Lane investigates.
* Correspondence
- A prime problem that even quantum computing can't solve p586
- Analyses support theory of stochastic regulation of fisheries p586
* Books
- Moralist, meet scientist p593
Nick Bostrom reviews "Experiments in Ethics" by Kwame Anthony Appiah Full Text PDF (264K)
Nick Bostrom reviews "Experiments in Ethics" by Kwame Anthony Appiah Full Text PDF (264K)
- Music grown from garden weeds p594
Colin Martin reviews "Umbel Ballits: Dylan Martorell" Full Text PDF (198K)
Colin Martin reviews "Umbel Ballits: Dylan Martorell" Full Text PDF (198K)
- Seeing the smaller picture p596
Advances in imaging techniques are transforming microbiology into a science that is rich in visual imagery, harking back to biology's pre-darwinian origins. Full Text PDF (305K)
Advances in imaging techniques are transforming microbiology into a science that is rich in visual imagery, harking back to biology's pre-darwinian origins. Full Text PDF (305K)
* News and Views
- Climate change: Hot questions of temperature bias p601
An unseen measurement bias has been identified in global records of sea surface temperature. The discrepancy will need correction, but will not affect conclusions about an overall warming trend.
An unseen measurement bias has been identified in global records of sea surface temperature. The discrepancy will need correction, but will not affect conclusions about an overall warming trend.
- Immunology: Soothing intestinal sugars p602
The gut is a new frontier in microbiology, offering many opportunities for innovative investigation. The finding of one such study is that intestinal inflammation in mice can be tamed by bacterial sugars.
The gut is a new frontier in microbiology, offering many opportunities for innovative investigation. The finding of one such study is that intestinal inflammation in mice can be tamed by bacterial sugars.
- Cancer: Whispering sweet somethings p604
That genetic mutations contribute to cancer is undisputed. What now emerges is that a cancer cell's microenvironment has a much stronger hand in the course a cancer takes than previously thought.
That genetic mutations contribute to cancer is undisputed. What now emerges is that a cancer cell's microenvironment has a much stronger hand in the course a cancer takes than previously thought.
- Mathematical physics: Packings close and loose p606
What determines how grains such as sand pack together to fill a space? A thoroughgoing investigation of how geometry and friction interact in such systems is a step towards a more general understanding.
What determines how grains such as sand pack together to fill a space? A thoroughgoing investigation of how geometry and friction interact in such systems is a step towards a more general understanding.
* Articles
- The genomic and epidemiological dynamics of human influenza A virus p615
- A microbial symbiosis factor prevents intestinal inflammatory disease p620
* Career View
Friday, May 23, 2008
Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini)
Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) has brightened enough to see with binoculars and, if you're lucky, with naked eyes. Comet C/2007 W1 (Boattini) continues to brighten faster than predicted, and has now reached about 6th magnitude. That's bright enough that you can see it without optical aid under excellent conditions, and it should be a relatively easy target through binoculars. The comet currently lies low in the southwestern sky after darkness falls, but it won't stay there long. It can be seen among the background stars of the southern constellation Pyxis the Compass. It lies at about the same altitude at the bright star Procyon in Canis Minor.
The Comet's best view is until the 1st week of June from Southern Hemisphere. Afterwards it will be lost in the glow of the Sun until it emerges in the 1st week of July. Then the Northern Hemisphere population will also have a good look at the comet (hopefully without optical aid). These couple of evenings the sky is not that clear here in Johannesburg, to go comet hunting, but I'm looking for an opportunity to see it soon.
Read more about this comet on:
Wiley-Blackwell Library Newsletter
Keep abreast with the latest Wiley-Blackwell developments (May 2008), by reading through this newsletter:The sections under New Titles Online highlight some of Wiley-Blackwell latest publications, and be sure to check Platform Update for up-to-the-moment news on the merger of Blackwell Synergy content into Wiley InterScience.
* View New Titles Online From Wiley-Blackwell
Journals - First issues of new journals now online
Journal Backfiles - Blackwell backfiles reach 5.3 million pages
Online Books - Spotlight on Life Science and Earth Science
Reference Works - New works and sample content
All journal content on Blackwell Synergy merges into Wiley InterScience:
As of July 1, 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.
As of July 1, 2008, all Blackwell journal content—including all full-text HTML and PDF versions of articles from current issues, backfiles, and issues published online before print—will be incorporated into Wiley InterScience.
Over the weekend of June 28th and 29th, 2008, there will be a period when both Blackwell Synergy and Wiley InterScience will be unavailable while we transition and re-index data.
After July 1, 2008, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available online.
For complete details, go to: interscience.wiley.com/transition
After July 1, 2008, Blackwell Synergy will no longer be available online.
For complete details, go to: interscience.wiley.com/transition
The Newsletter is AVAILABLE ONLINE AT: www.wiley.com/go/wiley-blackwell/librarynews
The Latest from Science Online Magazine
23 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5879, Pages 981-1096: Table of Contents Don't forget that the Library subscribe to the full-text online!
In the 23 May 2008 issue, Science and its online companion Science Signaling explore the stunning diversity and dynamics of the microbial universe. In Science, News stories look at the hidden microbial world inside sponges and ongoing efforts to classify microbes with respect to their environments, while Review articles discuss the microbial processes that drive earth's biogeochemical cycles and approaches to understanding the distribution of microbial taxa and their traits. In Science Signaling, Perspectives explore how different plant pathogens use similar signaling molecules in distinct ways, how gut microbes dampen the host immune response, and how mast cells use extracellular traps to kill microbes.
* Editorial
-Microbes in the Energy Grid
* News of the Week
- SICHUAN DISASTER: Landslides, Flooding Pose Threats as Experts Survey Quake's Impact
- RESEARCH FUNDING: Australia's New Science Budget Gets a Mixed Review
- GLOBAL WARMING: Hurricanes Won't Go Wild, According to Climate Models
- CLIMATE CHANGE: Polar Bear Listing Opens Door to New Lawsuits
- CLIMATE CHANGE: The Threat to the World's Plants
- MICROBIOLOGY: Bacteria Are Picky About Their Homes on Human Skin
* News Focus
- ENGINEERING: The End of an Intellectual Dark Age?
- COMMUNITY ECOLOGY: All That Makes Fungus Gardens Grow
- ASTROPHYSICS: GLAST Mission Prepares to Explore the Extremes of Cosmic Violence
* Letters
- Free Access to Landsat Imagery
- Science Education: Should Facts Come First?
* Books et al.
- EVOLUTION: Hard Facts About Soft Animals
* Perspectives
- BIOCHEMISTRY: SNO Removal
- OCEAN SCIENCE: Marine Calcifiers in a High-CO2 Ocean
- MATERIALS SCIENCE: Stronger, Tougher Steels
- MOLECULAR BIOLOGY: Slicing and Dicing for Small RNAs
* Brevia
- Extending the Sub-Sea-Floor Biosphere
* Research articles
- Virus Population Dynamics and Acquired Virus Resistance in Natural Microbial Communities
- Regulated Protein Denitrosylation by Cytosolic and Mitochondrial Thioredoxins
* Reports
- Structural Diversity of Sodium
- Formation of Box Canyon, Idaho, by Megaflood: Implications for Seepage Erosion on Earth and Mars
- Anticorrelated Seismic Velocity Anomalies from Post-Perovskite in the Lowermost Mantle
- Endogenous siRNAs Derived from Transposons and mRNAs in Drosophila Somatic Cells
- The Serine Protease TMPRSS6 Is Required to Sense Iron Deficiency
Nature Magazine: Latest issue
Have a look at selected articles from Nature: 22 May 2008; 453 (7194): 427 - 562* Editorials
- Two symbols, one solution p.427: Saving a handful of photogenic species — or iconic rainforests — is no substitute for a comprehensive plan that deals with climate, economics and the environment together. Full Text PDF (62K)
- The Universe at home p428
The digitization of astronomy is a transformation and a delight for both amateurs and professionals. Full Text PDF (58K)
The digitization of astronomy is a transformation and a delight for both amateurs and professionals. Full Text PDF (58K)
* News
- Polar bear numbers set to fall p432 Full Text PDF (1,646K)
Climate-change icon gains 'threatened' status from United States.
Climate-change icon gains 'threatened' status from United States.
Humpback population shows signs of recovery.
-Sidelines p435:
- No star left behind p437 Full Text PDF (247K)
An open-source software project could help unify every existing astronomical image into a single data set.
An open-source software project could help unify every existing astronomical image into a single data set.
- US plans more primate research p439
HIV and clinical research drive up demand for experiments. Full Text PDF (91K)
HIV and clinical research drive up demand for experiments. Full Text PDF (91K)
- NOAA chief backs bid for climate-change agency p441:
The chief of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has called for the creation of a National Climate Service to manage and disseminate information about global warming. Full Text PDF (191K)
* Correspondence
- Open-access more harm than good in developing world p450
* Books
- Security in an uncertain world p451: Biological protection systems that have evolved over billions of years could be the key to strengthening national defences against unforeseen threats. Jessica Flack reviews "Natural Security: A Darwinian Approach to a Dangerous World" Full Text PDF (302K)
- Genetic medicine at the bedside p452 Full Text PDF (160K)
Hugh Y. Rienhoff Jr reviews Heredity and Hope: "The Case for Genetic Screening" by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
Hugh Y. Rienhoff Jr reviews Heredity and Hope: "The Case for Genetic Screening" by Ruth Schwartz Cowan
* News & Views
- Laser technology: Over the rainbow p459
Many laser diodes provide light in only a limited range of the visible spectrum. A hybrid laser made out of plastic, driven by a high-power light-emitting diode, looks to offer a more flexible approach.
Many laser diodes provide light in only a limited range of the visible spectrum. A hybrid laser made out of plastic, driven by a high-power light-emitting diode, looks to offer a more flexible approach.
- Cell biology: Two hands for degradation p460
Living cells must do away with regulatory proteins that are not needed. News comes of a considerable advance in understanding how the main agent of destruction, the proteasome, catches its targets.
- Biophysics: Cells get in shape for a crawl p461
A cell's shape changes as it moves along a surface. The forward-thinking cytoskeletal elements are all for progress, but the conservative cell membrane keeps them under control by physically opposing their movement.
Living cells must do away with regulatory proteins that are not needed. News comes of a considerable advance in understanding how the main agent of destruction, the proteasome, catches its targets.
- Biophysics: Cells get in shape for a crawl p461
A cell's shape changes as it moves along a surface. The forward-thinking cytoskeletal elements are all for progress, but the conservative cell membrane keeps them under control by physically opposing their movement.
- Astronomy: Supernova bursts onto the scene p462
The stellar explosions known as supernovae are spectacular but common cosmic events. A satellite telescope's chance observation of a burst of X-ray light might be the first record of a supernova's earliest minutes.
The stellar explosions known as supernovae are spectacular but common cosmic events. A satellite telescope's chance observation of a burst of X-ray light might be the first record of a supernova's earliest minutes.
- Structural biology: Snapshots of DNA repair p463
In recombinational DNA repair, nearly identical sequences in chromosomes are found and swapped. Structures of the RecA–DNA complexes involved provide insight into the mechanism and energetics of this universal process.
In recombinational DNA repair, nearly identical sequences in chromosomes are found and swapped. Structures of the RecA–DNA complexes involved provide insight into the mechanism and energetics of this universal process.
- Cell biology: Viruses in camouflage p466
The vaccinia virus acts like a Trojan Horse to enter its host cells: it envelops itself in the membrane of a dying cell, and is then taken up by healthy cells.
The vaccinia virus acts like a Trojan Horse to enter its host cells: it envelops itself in the membrane of a dying cell, and is then taken up by healthy cells.
* Articles
- An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova p469
- Mechanism of shape determination in motile cells p475
- Proteasome subunit Rpn13 is a novel ubiquitin receptor p481
- Mechanism of homologous recombination from the RecA–ssDNA/dsDNA structures p489
* Letters
- Seismogenic lavas and explosive eruption forecasting p507
- Evidence for seismogenic fracture of silicic magma p511
- A stem batrachian from the Early Permian of Texas and the origin of frogs and salamanders p515
- The ground state of embryonic stem cell self-renewal p519
- Transcriptome-wide noise controls lineage choice in mammalian progenitor cells p544
- A novel route for ATP acquisition by the remnant mitochondria of Encephalitozoon cuniculi p553
* Naturejobs
China's Earthquake: A shattering experience
China's devastating earthquake!More satellite images have been released portraying the devastation caused by the May 12, 2008 earthquake that struck China's Sichaun Basin. This pair of images, captured by Taiwan’s Formosat-2, illustrates the challenges faced by rescuers bringing equipment and supplies to survivors of the massive 7.9-magnitude earthquake.
Universe Today: More Satellite Images of China's Earthquake
Original News Source: NASA's Earth Observatory
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
OvidSP New Interface: Now available @ UJ
Finally we have the new Ovid/SilverPlatter (OvidSP) interface.
The two Bibliographic databases relevant to the Sciences are:
- Analytical Abstracts (1 user at the time), Coverage: 1980-2008
- Parasitology (1 user at the time), Coverage: 1973 - 2008
Access is available through the UJ Library Databases
Analytical Abstracts is the world's most comprehensive abstracts service dealing solely with analytical chemistry. It contains references to articles from more than 3000 journals, with coverage beginning in 1980.
CAB Parisitology includes all relevant records from the CAB ABSTRACTS database, corresponding to selections from a number of abstract journals in the CABI range. Subject areas:
CAB Parisitology includes all relevant records from the CAB ABSTRACTS database, corresponding to selections from a number of abstract journals in the CABI range. Subject areas:
- diagnosis of parasitic infections and vector-borne diseases.
- pathology and pathogenesis of parasitic infections and vector-borne diseases.
-therapy of parasitic infections and vector-borne diseases - including drug therapy, immunization, immunotherapy, and surgical interventions.
- pathology and pathogenesis of parasitic infections and vector-borne diseases.
-therapy of parasitic infections and vector-borne diseases - including drug therapy, immunization, immunotherapy, and surgical interventions.
Interface characteristics:
* Basic Search:
OvidSP's Basic Search is a natural language search. Enter your search terms and click the Search button. OvidSP posts results to your search history. In addition, OvidSP's Basic Search tab makes it easy for you to apply limit criteria to your searches.
* Advanced Search:
When you select the Advanced Ovid Search tab, keyword searching is the default search type of the command line. The Advanced Ovid Search tab offers these search types: Keyword Author Title Journal* Advanced Search:
* Find Citation:
OvidSP's Find Citation tab lets you submit fielded data to retrieve specific journal article citations.
* Search Fields:
From the Search Fields tab, you can view all indexed fields of a database. You can also browse for other fields to search in the index display. OvidSP displays the fielded index with the term you entered.
* Search Tools:
* Search Tools:
OvidSP provides tools that let you discover more about the relationship between terms and subjects within the context of the database in which you are searching.
* Search History
Under each search option, there is an Search History tab. It keeps you aware of all searches you have done during that session.
* Saved Searches/Alerts
You need to create your personal account
* Help Options:
You have three options to learn more about the databases:
- Help (if you are, for example on the Basic Search screen and have problem, click on Help for instructions)
- Database Field Guide - provide information on the database you currently search
- Display Knowledge - a list of 347 available answers (RSS feed programs compatible with OvidSP; Is there a way to enter multiple email addresses for eTOC email alerts?; Setting up eTOCs for other users, etc.)
* Log off - don't forget to "log off" each time you finish your search. Keep in mind that we have an 1 users licence.
* Log off - don't forget to "log off" each time you finish your search. Keep in mind that we have an 1 users licence.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Chemspider: Chemical Search Engine
I have found about this product through the Nature issue dated 8/05/08.According to their web page:
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.
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. We intend ChemSpider to offer 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.
ChemSpider is a value-added offering of publicly available chemical structures since many additional properties have been added to each of the chemical structures. We intend ChemSpider to offer 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.
With ChemSpider the intention is to aggregate into a single database all chemical structures available within open access and commercial databases and to provide the necessary pointers from the ChemSpider search engine to the information of interest. This service will allow users to either access the data immediately via open access links or have the information necessary to continue their searches into commercially available systems.
ChemSpider was released in March of 2007. At present the database contains information from such diverse sources as a marine natural products database, from all commercially available ACD/Labs databases, from the EPA’s DSSTox efforts and from a series of chemical vendors. The data collections will continue to expand.
Click on ChemRef to search through the following literature sources:
- International Journal of Electrochemical Science
- Association of Clinical Biochemists of India
- Molecular Diversity Preservation International
- PubMed Central
- Hindawi Publishing Corporation
- International Union of Crystallography
- Medknow Publications
- RepositoriUM
Click on Search to have different search options:
- Simple search: Systematic Name, Synonym, Trade Name,Registry Number
- Structure search
- LASSO search: A new 3D ligand activity surfaced-based similarity tool from SImBioSys gives users the power to quickly screen large datasets for structurally diverse active molecules
- Advanced LASSO
- Chemical elements
- Properties search
- Predicted properties
- Data Source search
- Literature source (see ChemRef)
- PubChem search
- Advanced search
- Searches history
Have a look at this search engine, and explore all the possibilities that offers
Useful reading, the article publish in Nature, 7th May 2008:
Nature Magazine: Latest Issues
The latest two issues of Nature (some full-text is available)
15 May 2008; 453 (7193): 257 - 426
* Editorials
- The next big climate challenge p257
Governments should work together to build the supercomputers needed for future predictions that can capture the detail required to inform policy.
- Stuck in the mud p258
The Environmental Protection Agency must gather data on the toxicity of spreading sewage sludge.
- Negative results p258
Retracted papers require a thorough explanation of what went wrong in the experiments.
* Research Highlights
- Marine ecology: Deep-sea cheetahs p260
- Palaeoclimate: Methane didn't act alone p260
- Geoscience: The dust settles p260
- Ecology: Hand-me-down bacteria p261
* News
- German universities bow to public pressure over GM crops p263
Plug is pulled on maize research.
- Snapshot: Charged clouds p267
Lightning rages over Chilean volcano.
* News Features
- Chemistry: Designer Debacle p275
A high-profile scientist, a graduate student and two major retractions. Erika Check Hayden reports on a case that has rocked the chemistry community.
* Correspondance
- Deforestation: call for justice, not militarization p280
* Books and Arts
- Big problems, big decisions p282
Sustainable solutions to worldwide crises such as overpopulation and climate change need regulating by global bodies, but whose views should these organizations represent?
Michael Sargent reviews Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Enshrining the right to live or die p284
Emily Jackson reviews Understanding Bioethics and the Law: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology by Barry R. Schaller and Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? by Mary Warnock & Elisabeth Macdonald
- Charting the water's edge p285
Deborah Jean Warner reviews Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change by Mark Monmonier
- 25 years of HIV p289
Reflecting on how far we have come scientifically since isolating HIV in 1983, Anthony S. Fauci urges a renewed commitment to the far greater challenges ahead, especially that of vaccine development.
* News and Views
- Palaeoclimate: Windows on the greenhouse p291
Data laboriously extracted from an Antarctic ice core provide an unprecedented view of temperature, and levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane, over the past 800,000 years of Earth's history.
- Quantum information: An integrated light circuit p294
There's a long wish list for a workable quantum computer: a viable system must be fast, compact and stable. The first integrated optical quantum logic circuits are a step in the right direction.
- Tuberculosis: Deadly combination p295
Many factors affect the severity of tuberculosis in infected individuals. Among these are the genetic make-up of the bacterial strain, that of the host, and the interplay between the two.
- Climate change: Attributing cause and effect p296
The climate is changing, and so are aspects of the world's physical and biological systems. It is no easy matter to link cause and effect — the latest attack on the problem brings the power of meta-analysis to bear.
- Solid-state physics: Polaritronics in view p297
Polaritons are an odd cross-breed of a particle, half-matter, half-light. They could offer an abundant crop of new and improved optoelectronic devices — a promise already being fulfilled.
- Plant biology: In their neighbour's shadow p298
They can't move away from shade, so plants resort to a molecular solution to find a place in the sun. The action they take is quite radical, and involves a reprogramming of their development.
* Articles
- Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change p353
- Nucleosome organization in the Drosophila genome p358
- Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin p363
8 May 2008; 453 (7192): 132 - 256
* Research Highlights
- Climatic volcanoes p136
- Materials science: Carbon on display p136
- Developmental biology: Antler insight p136
- Nanotechnology: Tiny carbon workers p137
- Microbiology: Fuel cell p137
* News
- Top billing for platypus at end of evolution tree p138
Monotreme's genome shares features with mammals, birds and reptiles.
- Chemists spin a web of data p139
Chemspider website provides free information on millions of molecules.
* News Features
- Future scenarios for emissions need continual adjustment p155
- Climate policies will stimulate technology development p155
- IPCC's climate-policy assumptions were justified p155
* Books and Arts
- Learning from climates past p158
Chris Turney reviews Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It by Wallace S. Broecker & Robert Kunzig
* News and Views
- Computational biochemistry: Old enzymes, new tricks p164
Although enzymes are superb catalysts, their range of reactions is limited to those that support life. Their repertoire could be expanded by a method that allows artificial enzymes to be made from scratch.
- Quantum information: Stopping the rot p167
Uncontrollable outside influences undermine the whole enterprise of quantum computing. Nailing down the sources of this 'decoherence' in a solid-state system is a step towards solving the problem.
- Molecular biology: An HIV secret uncovered p169
With two catalytic activities and many substrates, how does HIV's reverse transcriptase enzyme know what to do to which substrate? Zooming in on the enzyme's molecular interactions provides tantalizing clues.
- Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients p216
15 May 2008; 453 (7193): 257 - 426
* Editorials
- The next big climate challenge p257
Governments should work together to build the supercomputers needed for future predictions that can capture the detail required to inform policy.
- Stuck in the mud p258
The Environmental Protection Agency must gather data on the toxicity of spreading sewage sludge.
- Negative results p258
Retracted papers require a thorough explanation of what went wrong in the experiments.
* Research Highlights
- Marine ecology: Deep-sea cheetahs p260
- Palaeoclimate: Methane didn't act alone p260
- Geoscience: The dust settles p260
- Ecology: Hand-me-down bacteria p261
* News
- German universities bow to public pressure over GM crops p263
Plug is pulled on maize research.
- Snapshot: Charged clouds p267
Lightning rages over Chilean volcano.
* News Features
- Chemistry: Designer Debacle p275
A high-profile scientist, a graduate student and two major retractions. Erika Check Hayden reports on a case that has rocked the chemistry community.
* Correspondance
- Deforestation: call for justice, not militarization p280
* Books and Arts
- Big problems, big decisions p282
Sustainable solutions to worldwide crises such as overpopulation and climate change need regulating by global bodies, but whose views should these organizations represent?
Michael Sargent reviews Fatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population by Matthew Connelly and Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs
- Enshrining the right to live or die p284
Emily Jackson reviews Understanding Bioethics and the Law: The Promises and Perils of the Brave New World of Biotechnology by Barry R. Schaller and Easeful Death: Is There a Case for Assisted Dying? by Mary Warnock & Elisabeth Macdonald
- Charting the water's edge p285
Deborah Jean Warner reviews Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change by Mark Monmonier
- 25 years of HIV p289
Reflecting on how far we have come scientifically since isolating HIV in 1983, Anthony S. Fauci urges a renewed commitment to the far greater challenges ahead, especially that of vaccine development.
* News and Views
- Palaeoclimate: Windows on the greenhouse p291
Data laboriously extracted from an Antarctic ice core provide an unprecedented view of temperature, and levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide and methane, over the past 800,000 years of Earth's history.
- Quantum information: An integrated light circuit p294
There's a long wish list for a workable quantum computer: a viable system must be fast, compact and stable. The first integrated optical quantum logic circuits are a step in the right direction.
- Tuberculosis: Deadly combination p295
Many factors affect the severity of tuberculosis in infected individuals. Among these are the genetic make-up of the bacterial strain, that of the host, and the interplay between the two.
- Climate change: Attributing cause and effect p296
The climate is changing, and so are aspects of the world's physical and biological systems. It is no easy matter to link cause and effect — the latest attack on the problem brings the power of meta-analysis to bear.
- Solid-state physics: Polaritronics in view p297
Polaritons are an odd cross-breed of a particle, half-matter, half-light. They could offer an abundant crop of new and improved optoelectronic devices — a promise already being fulfilled.
- Plant biology: In their neighbour's shadow p298
They can't move away from shade, so plants resort to a molecular solution to find a place in the sun. The action they take is quite radical, and involves a reprogramming of their development.
* Articles
- Attributing physical and biological impacts to anthropogenic climate change p353
- Nucleosome organization in the Drosophila genome p358
- Crystal structure of squid rhodopsin p363
8 May 2008; 453 (7192): 132 - 256
* Research Highlights
- Climatic volcanoes p136
- Materials science: Carbon on display p136
- Developmental biology: Antler insight p136
- Nanotechnology: Tiny carbon workers p137
- Microbiology: Fuel cell p137
* News
- Top billing for platypus at end of evolution tree p138
Monotreme's genome shares features with mammals, birds and reptiles.
- Chemists spin a web of data p139
Chemspider website provides free information on millions of molecules.
* News Features
- Earth science: Harnessing the hum p146
A new way to analyse seismic vibrations is bringing order out of noise to help predict volcanic eruptions or create detailed images of Earth's interior.
A new way to analyse seismic vibrations is bringing order out of noise to help predict volcanic eruptions or create detailed images of Earth's interior.
- Cell biology: The cellular hullabaloo p150
The inner life of a cell is noisy. Helen Pearson discovers how the resulting randomness makes life more challenging — and richer.
The inner life of a cell is noisy. Helen Pearson discovers how the resulting randomness makes life more challenging — and richer.
* Correspondence
- Energy assumptions were reasonable at the time, but not now p154- Future scenarios for emissions need continual adjustment p155
- Climate policies will stimulate technology development p155
- IPCC's climate-policy assumptions were justified p155
* Books and Arts
- Learning from climates past p158
Chris Turney reviews Fixing Climate: What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat — and How to Counter It by Wallace S. Broecker & Robert Kunzig
* News and Views
- Computational biochemistry: Old enzymes, new tricks p164
Although enzymes are superb catalysts, their range of reactions is limited to those that support life. Their repertoire could be expanded by a method that allows artificial enzymes to be made from scratch.
- Quantum information: Stopping the rot p167
Uncontrollable outside influences undermine the whole enterprise of quantum computing. Nailing down the sources of this 'decoherence' in a solid-state system is a step towards solving the problem.
- Molecular biology: An HIV secret uncovered p169
With two catalytic activities and many substrates, how does HIV's reverse transcriptase enzyme know what to do to which substrate? Zooming in on the enzyme's molecular interactions provides tantalizing clues.
- Scale effects and human impact on the elevational species richness gradients p216
The Latest from Science Online Magazine
Look at the latest two issues from Science Online Magazine. Don't forget that you have a full-text access to these articles:
16 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5878, Pages 845-954
* News of the Week
- LATIN AMERICA: Price Is the Main Barrier to Wider Use of Papillomavirus Vaccine
- ITALY: A Plea for 'Transparent' Funding
A furor over political meddling in grants for stem cell research in Italy has erupted into a broad protest about favoritism and the lack of peer review in deciding who receives national science funding.
* News Focus
- ENTOMOLOGY: A Mosquito Goes Global
- PLANETARY SCIENCE: Layers Within Layers Hint at a Wobbly Martian Climate
- CHEMISTRY: Click Chemistry Clicks Along
Researchers seeking new ways to forge molecules are saving steps and effort by adapting high-yield reactions to fill a variety of needs.
- PHYSICS: The Hot Question: How New Are the New Superconductors?
* Letters
- Financing Tropical Forest Preservation
* Books et al.
* Perspectives
- CIRCADIAN RHYTHMS: Integrating Circadian Timekeeping with Cellular Physiology
- PLANT SCIENCE: Plant Stress Profiles
- CHEMISTRY: The Changing Shapes of Molecules
- GEOCHEMISTRY: The Origin of Alkaline Lavas
- CHEMISTRY: To Be or Not to Be Localized
The hole created by emission of a core electron in a diatomic molecule resides in an entangled state.
- BIOPHYSICS: The Intrigue of the Interface
* Brevia
- The Energetic Cost of Climbing in Primates
* Reports
- Measuring Picosecond Isomerization Kinetics via Broadband Microwave Spectroscopy
- Genome-Scale Proteomics Reveals Arabidopsis thaliana Gene Models and Proteome Dynamics
- Early Forebrain Wiring: Genetic Dissection Using Conditional Celsr3 Mutant Mice
* Technical Comments:
- Comment on "Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians"
- Response to Comment on "Habitat Split and the Global Decline of Amphibians"
9 May 2008, Vol 320, Issue 5877, Pages 713-815
* News of the Week
- GENOMICS: Genome Speaks to Transitional Nature of Monotremes
* News Focus
- CONSERVATION BIOLOGY: Into the Wild: Reintroduced Animals Face Daunting Odds
* Books et al.
* Policy Forum
- PUBLIC HEALTH: Reassessing HIV Prevention
* Perspectives
- PHYSICS: Designer Atomic Nuclei
- ECOLOGY: How the Sahara Became Dry
- AIDS/HIV: A STEP into Darkness or Light?
- BIOCHEMISTRY: Tinkering with Acellular Division
- BIOGEOCHEMISTRY: News About Nitrogen
* Reviews
- Toward an AIDS Vaccine
* Research Article
- Climate-Driven Ecosystem Succession in the Sahara: The Past 6000 Years
A climate record from lake sediments in Chad shows that the Sahara changed gradually from a tropical ecosystem to a desert, not abruptly as implied by Atlantic dust layers
* Reports
- Controlled Phase Shifts with a Single Quantum Dot
- Fracture Propagation to the Base of the Greenland Ice Sheet During Supraglacial Lake Drainage
- Monte Verde: Seaweed, Food, Medicine, and the Peopling of South America
- Adaptive Phenotypic Plasticity in Response to Climate Change in a Wild Bird Population
- Regulation of the Cellular Heat Shock Response in Caenorhabditis elegans by Thermosensory Neurons
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