The Living Molecules app allows you to turn chemical structures into a molecular glyph, which can be used on documents like posters, manuscripts or web pages. Anyone who has the app can use the camera to capture molecular glyphs, and bring the chemical data onto their device. A molecular glyph is the chemical equivalent of a QR code.

The glyph contains just enough information to establish a source and identification for the data, so that the content can be downloaded from the internet and viewed:

I’ve been trying this out over the weekend and whilst it works, it looks like it is very resource intensive and my old iPhone 4 really struggled. This looks like an interesting project and it will be interesting to see how it develops.

I’ve added it to the list of mobile science applications.

I just noticed that an update for ChemDoodle was available on my iPhone.

According to the release notes this includes

• Support for the iPhone 5
• IUPAC Naming
• 3D coordinate generation and viewer
• Added empirical formula to calculations
• Added rotatable bond count to calculations
• Added total electron count to calculations
• Added vdW volume to calculations
• Added complexity to calculations
• Fixed slow performance issues on iPad in landscape mode
• Fixed MolGrabber search issues
• Fixed issue where the back button wouldn’t appear on the last help page
• Fixed login issues
• Performance improvements
• General improvements and fixes

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

There is an interesting article in the Journal of Cheminformatics regarding an app I’ve highlighted previously, TB Mobile: a mobile app for anti-tuberculosis molecules with known targets.

TB Mobile may assist researchers as part of their workflow in identifying potential targets for hits generated from phenotypic screening and in prioritizing them for further follow-up. The app is designed to lower the barriers to accessing this information, so that all researchers with an interest in combatting this deadly disease can use it freely to the benefit of their own efforts.

There are more mobile science applications listed here.

Four new mobile science applications from ZappyLab a provider of mobile and web applications for scientists. They focus on creating tools that are helpful to researchers and laboratory workers.

GrowthCurves is a portable spreadsheet for researchers working with cell cultures.

PubChase is a science literature search and recommendation tool, available online or on your mobile device

Lab Counter is a tallying app, specifically designed for the scientists and medical laboratory workers.

Tetrad is a utility for yeast geneticists to score yeast tetrad dissections.

They have all been added to the mobile science page.

The SAR Table app has had the ability to match scaffolds to molecules for a while now, but as of the latest release (1.3.4) just submitted to the AppStore, it will be able to match more than one scaffold at once. The actual process of performing the scaffold match is provided by a webservice (molsync.com).

More details here.

Dotmatics have announced an update to their chemical sketching application Elemental to version 1.5. No details of any changes are available.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Chocolat a text editor for Mac OS X, that combines native Cocoa with powerful text editing tools has been updated.

There are more text editors here.

The latest version of Green Solvents (1.1) is now available on the AppStore. Worth noting is the fact that the app is now sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Dotmatics have announced an update to their chemical sketching application Elemental. Version 1.4 includes an improved calculated properties engine.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

There are a couple of things happening in the mobile science space that I thought I should highlight.

The SAR Table app is going through some major improvements at the moment. The recently added matrix view is being modified to make it more interactive.

Recently the Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) was updated with the ability to parse ChemDraw files in particular it understands reaction schemes.

It can extract reaction schemes, and reassemble them into the more highly structured form that MMDS uses, i.e. segregated into individual components, where each distinct part of the reaction is characterised as a reactant, reagent or product, and is described by name/structure/both, and stoichiometry.

The ChemSpider synthetic pages reactions are stored in Chemdraw format and can thus be imported into MMDS, the sequence of actions is shown here

There is also a presentation by Antony Williams describing work at the Royal Society of Chemistry to support mobile science.

The latest data from Net Applications is available and the continued rise in mobil computing is clearly seen. In January 2013 mobile devices account for nearly 12% of web usage, with iOS holding just over 60% and Android 24%. Blackberry languishes at under 2% and it remains to be seen whether there new offerings will revive the once market leading company. The iPad is the most popular mobile device followed by iPhone.

On the desktop it is pretty much unchanged, Windows still account for around 90% (with XP unchanged at 39%) and Mac just over 7%. Mac OS X 10.8 is the most popular Mac operating system.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

With SPRESImobile, a wealth of chemical reaction information is readily available at your fingertips from a mobile device (iPhone, iPad). You can search the entire ChemReact database easily with this highly intuitive app

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

I just noticed that version 1.4.1 of the Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) has just been submitted to the iTunes AppStore, and its notable new feature is the ability to select a datasheet and calculate structure-based properties. A new column is created for each selected property, and the calculation feature is applied to each row. The available properties currently include molecular weight/formula, log P, molar refractivity and topological polar surface area. The functionality is provided by the molsync.com webservice.

There is more information on the Cheminformatics blog.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Database searching has now been added to MolPrime+ for iOS. The latest version, 1.1, has been submitted to the AppStore and should be available soon. As soon as it is approved, it will be possible to easily search the PubChem and ChEBI databases, by name or structure, and use the results within the app.

There is a detailed description here

There many more iPhone/iPad apps on the mobile science page.

Yet another publication describing the impact of mobile science.

We are perhaps at a turning point for making cheminformatics accessible to scientists that are not computational chemists. The proliferation of mobile devices has seen software or ‘apps’ developed that can be used for sophisticated chemistry applications. These apps can offer capabilities to the practicing chemist that are approaching those of conventional desktop-based software, while still apps tend to be focused on a relatively small range of tasks. Mobile apps that can pull in and integrate public content from many sources relating to molecules and data are also being developed. Apps for drug discovery are already evolving rapidly and are able to communicate with each other to create workflows, as well as perform more complex processes, enabling informatics aspects of drug discovery (i.e. accessing data, modeling and visualization) to be done anywhere by potentially anyone. We will describe how these cheminformatics apps can be used productively and some of the future opportunities that we predict.

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Mobile science continues to make inroads, this publication describes the work to make Green Chemistry information more accessible.

Incorporating Green Chemistry Concepts into Mobile Chemistry Applications and Their Potential Uses DOI

There is a page of mobile science applications here.

Datasets are ubiquitous in chemistry research and education. For fields involving organic chemistry, these datasets often take the form of Structure data files (SD files). Although an assortment of tools can present SD files on desktops and laptops, few options exist for doing so on increasingly-useful tablets and phones StructureMate™, aims to bring chemical structure dataset analysis and visualisation to a much wider range of devices. This Universal app runs on both the iPad/iPad Mini and iPhone/iPod Touch families, with custom-built interface for each.

There many more iPhone/iPad apps on the mobile science page.

BioGPS free extensible and customizable gene annotation portal, a complete resource for learning about gene and protein function.

Now added to the mobile science page.

Labguru for iPad is a companion app to the Labguru web application. The app enables Labguru users to conduct and update their experiments from the lab bench. The app makes it possible to run and track multiple experiments, record notes and results while performing an experiment, and to sync the data with the Labguru web application.

My Lab, your iPAD is now a lab notebook, protocols organizer, lab inventory and much more. My lab was conceptualized and developed under the scientific expertise of Mahendra Rao MD PhD and Hue Medscience. My lab is a customizable app that lets you keep your lab data private and enables sharing of the content you want enabling full control of your files. My Lab also includes direct access to Dropbox to store your files for easy access from anywhere

BioTechniques The International Journal of Life Science Methods – Now on Your Mobile Device BioTechniques provides open access to high-quality, peer-reviewed papers on laboratory techniques and protocols. Now in its 52nd volume, BioTechniques has over 80,000 print subscribers worldwide.

Oracle Oracle Business Intelligence Mobile for Apple iPad and Apple iPhone is a mobile analytics application that allows users to view, analyze and take action on Oracle Business Intelligence content.

The Journal of Cell Biology app allows immediate access to full-text articles. The original international cell biology journal, JCB now travels wherever you do. You can read full-text articles anywhere at anytime, even without a network connection. The app, designed for easy reading and browsing on any iOS device

Life Technologies Protocols App provides quick, convenient access to popular Applied Biosystems or Invitrogen product protocols. Each protocol is presented with concise step-by-step instructions, along with easy access to the complete product manual

PNAS, the official journal of the US National Academy of Sciences, is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is published daily online in PNAS Early Edition and weekly in print. Easily access the PNAS table of contents and full text articles directly from your mobile device.

Mol Biology Get all the latest research findings from Molecular Microbiology, including articles yet to be published in an issue. Our iPad-optimised design provides the best browsing experience possible. With a few simple clicks you can quickly and easily move between articles, images and more.

MIQE - qPCR helps you in reviewing scientific works and checking your own experiments, when qPCR is involved. Check your project's compliance to MIQE in minutes, have all required references to hand, and follow qPCR events and new

Cell Imaging HD This mobile app is designed to help you find fluorescent dyes, reagents and protocols for cell biology related fluorescence microscopy applications.

BioLegend Tools , this application provides you with important information about your mouse and human CD Molecules, Cytokines and Chemokines. It also includes BioLegend pathway posters, an antibody usage calculator, and a lab timer.

There is an extensive collection of apps for science on the mobile science page.

Last October when FierceBiotech IT rounded up the top apps in life sciences, the industry was just coming to terms with the potential of mobile devices. Now life science software providers are waking up to the fact that mobile is more than an opportunity, it is a necessity. It is increasingly hard to envisage a successful software company that lacks a mobile strategy.

Read more: 15 mobile apps in Life Sciences - 2012 - FierceBiotechIT

There is an extensive collection of apps for science on the mobile science page.

The SPRESImobile app provides access to InfoChem‘s SPRESI database. It runs on Apple iOS devices (iPhones, iPods and iPads) and is free on the iTunes AppStore. The latest version extends the search capabilities to include searching by reaction: various types of exact, substructure and similarity searches can be performed. Furthermore, it is now possible for existing customers of SPRESI to provide their user credentials within the app, which unlocks the entirety of the database content, rather than the default curated ChemReact subset that is made available to all.

More apps are on the mobile science page

ChemDoodle mobile has just been updated

ChemDoodle Mobile is a calculator for drawn organic structures. There are four main windows: Draw, Calculate, Spectra and Help. The Draw window shows a typical ChemDoodle sketcher, where you can draw and store your structures. The Calculate page calculates properties and the Spectra page simulates NMR spectra. All spectra are interactive. The Help page contains a detailed help guide.

Calculations 1. Molecular Formula 2. Molecular Mass 3. Monoisotopic Mass 4. Degree of Unsaturation 5. Hydrogen Bond Acceptors 6. Hydrogen Bond Donors 7. Average Molecular Polarizability 8. Molar Refractivity 9. Polar Surface Area 10. logP Spectra 1. Mass Parent Peak (Isotopic Distribution) 2. 1H NMR 3. 13C NMR

There are more apps on the mobile science page

The RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB) mobile app is a new application that provides fast, on-the-go access to the RCSB PDB resources. The app enables the general public, researchers and scholars to search the Protein Data Bank and visualize protein structures using either a WiFi or cellular data connection. Search the entire PDB database, view the latest protein structure entries to be released, access your MyPDB account, view the entire catalog of Molecule of the Month, airplay support for high resolution screens and more.

Now added to the mobile science page

I’ve added four more apps to the mobile science page.

The Aldrich Handbook of Fine Chemicals for your iPad, Convenient alphabetical browsing of chemical substances in list or grid view Substance pages with key technical properties, chemical structures, and links to corresponding products on Sigma-Aldrich.com for additional information,Ability to search by product name, synonym, CAS number, and product number with alphabetically returned results.

Molarity a chemistry calculator tool that generates lab-ready directions describing how to prepare an acid or base solution of a specified molarity or normality from a concentrated acid or base solution. A second tab includes a general molarity function that calculates the mass of any reagent needed to prepare a given volume of solution of desired molarity. A third tab features a stock dilution function that calculates how to dilute a stock solution of any known molarity to your desired volume and molarity.

HPLC Calc Calculates conditions for transfer of an isocratic or gradient method from one HPLC column to another. Recommends flow rates for analytical columns. Allows method scaling from microbore through preparative column range based on the 2 sets of column variables (column length, column I.D., particle size) and current method conditions (flow rate, injection volume, pressure, run time, equilibration time).

CloningBench Restriction Enzyme Finder - Search by cut-site, name or buffer type, obtain technical data that you can share easily with others and order directly from your mobile device. Double Digest Finder - Find the correct buffer and concentration when digesting DNA with two restriction enzymes. Competent Cell Selection Guide - Quickly find the right competent cell for your cloning application and order easily. Search for chemically competent or electrocompetent cells, desired transformation efficiency, specialized application or packaging format that suits your needs.

I was wondering when someone would use an iPad as the front-end to a fully featured modelling package running on a remote server, looks like Wavefunction have done a pretty impressive job with taking their sophisticated Spartan computational chemistry package from the desktop to mobile devices.

iSpartan creates molecules as familiar 2D sketches, directly converts these into 3D structures, and calculates low energy conformations. Atomic and molecular properties, NMR and infrared spectra, molecular orbitals and electrostatic potential maps are available from a 5,000 molecule subset of the Spartan Spectra and Properties Database (SSPD). The database may also be searched by substructure. Properties, spectra and graphical models of molecules in the SSPD subset are available for examination.

iSpartan Server is an available add-on to the iSpartan app. iSpartan Server installs on a Windows or Macintosh computer and converts iSpartan from an application whose primary utility is sketching molecules in 2D and visualizing them in 3D, into an open-ended molecular modeling research tool providing access to the full Spartan Spectra and Properties Database (SSPD), currently ~170,000 molecules) and to the computational engines used to produce the data in the SSPD. For molecules not included in the database, connection to iSpartan Server supports calculation of structures, properties, and spectra for all user generated molecules from iSpartan running on the iPad, iPhone, and iPodTouch.

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here

ChemFormula is a molecular formula and weight calculator ideal for students and anyone else who needs to quickly translate arbitrarily complex formulas into empirical formulas with molecular weights. Written by chemists, it includes support for a large number of common chemical abbreviations, functional groups, and protecting groups.

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

There is a paper describing ODDT Open Drug Discovery Teams app.

Investigators of rare and neglected diseases can access some of the latest research in the field, plus data about the disorders themselves, through a recently launched free app for Apple devices.

The Approved Drugs app, which came out on the iTunes AppStore just a few days ago, is about to get its first update, whenever v1.0.1 gets approved. The update deals with the loading performance that currently incurs a bit of a hit when the app first loads, and can overload older devices that have less memory (i.e. crash). The reason the loading time does/did take awhile is that the data for 1300 drugs with 2D & 3D structures, enumerated tautomers, and various other adjunct data uses up quite a bit of memory, and it needs to be randomly accessible. The XML datasheet format used to store the data is suitable for streaming, but not at all for accessing arbitrary data entries without loading the whole thing into memory. The solution is a little bit inconvenient: invent a custom format for the read-only data that is indexed, so the app can rapidly scan the contents, in any order, without having to parse it all first.

Beilstein Journals App is available free of charge for iOS. Use this app to read all articles of the two Open Access journals Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry and Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology.

Have a look at the mobile science page for more science apps for the iPhone and iPad.

Molsoft has just released a new version of iMolview an app that lets you browse protein, DNA, and small molecules in 3D on the iPhone and iPad.

The key new features include:

• support for high resolution retina display in iPad3
• simultaneous display of multiple proteins and superposition
• side-by-side stereo
• new tools for measuring and displaying distances and angles
• export fully interactive chemical spreadsheets from ICM-Chemist to the iPad

There is also a video of iMolview in action

Have a look at the mobile science page for more science apps for the iPhone and iPad.

The Approved Drugs app contains over a thousand chemical structures and names of small molecule drugs approved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA). Structures and names can be browsed in a list, searched by name, filtered by structural features, and ranked by similarity to a user-drawn structure. The detail view allows viewing of a 3D conformation as well as tautomers. Structures can be exported in a variety of ways, e.g. email, twitter, clipboard

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

ChemSpider Mobile v1.1.1 released

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

iKinasePro is now a universal app running on all iOS devices. iKinasePro for iOS4 provides access into Eidogen-Sertanty's Kinase Knowledgebase (KKB) with fast and powerful substructure-, similarity-, and super-similarity searching capability. In addition, you can search the kinome by target name, by finger-drawn chemical structures, and/or tap through a vast array of ring structures to circumnavigate the Kinome from several different perspectives

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

SPRESImobile is an app for Apple iPod, iPhone and iPad mobile devices, developed in collaboration with Eidogen-Sertanty. It provides direct access to ChemReact, a subset of the SPRESI structure and reaction database, which contains more than 400,000 unique reaction types and the related references.

There is a listing of science apps for iOS here.

One of the challenges of creating apps for mobile devices is making functionality available via the user interface and the limited real estate. The UI of the mobile molecular data sheet (MMDS) has been updated to addresses a minor but persistent inconvenience: previously, the main command bank had to be open in order to exit from any of the editor panels.

There is a listing of mobile science apps here.

Reagents, This application details the structures and functions of >80 reagents encountered in typical introductory organic chemistry courses.

In this screencast BioTeam shows how it can orchestrate an Accelrys Pipeline Pilot experiment running on a remote cloud (BT Compute) via Apple iOS Siri voice control.

Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) is now available on the iTunes Store.

The idea behind ODDT is that there are many rare of neglected diseases that might benefit from collaborative efforts from scientists from multiple disciplines, ODDT is an application that supports informal interactions, provides a means to explore relevant information in a flipboard like interface in particular information tagged by other scientists with similar interests. The image below gives you an idea of the topics currently discussed.

This slideshow explains the genesis of the project, and how it has evolved.

So why not fire up iTunes and download the free app and get involved?

JSDraw2 interface is changed a lot to fit the touch user experience: 1. The default button sizes are much bigger for fingers to touch 2. For smaller screen size, the toolbar buttons are smartly grouped and shrinked.  So even for phone screens, the JSDraw toobar is much easier to use 3. Zooming, moving, rotating and undo/redo gestures are fully implemented

The Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) has been updated. Two major usability enhancements:

(1) Additional tool banks on the left and right side of the sketcher provide simplified drawing tools that are more familiar to users of desktop chemical drawing software.

(2) A tooltip system provides tips, live demonstrations and links to documentation.

SPRESImobile provides direct access to ChemReact, a subset of the SPRESI structure and reaction database, which contains more than 400,000 unique reaction types and the related references. SPRESImobile allows searching by name and structure queries, exact, substructure and All-in-one (Flex) search. There is a list of iOS applications on the mobile science page.

I’ve just added Brain Lab to the list of mobile science applications Brain Lab is a brain cell simulator, currently it offers

1. A passive integrate and fire model
2. A full Hodgkin-Huxley model with sodium and potassium channels
3. A Library to learn more about brain science

Brain Lab offers real scientific brain cell models that can be used by anyone, no matter if you are a student, a scientist, or someone who is just interested in brain science. To carry out your experiments, they have set up a Lab for you with all the necessary equipment. If you need to brush up your brain science knowledge or look up a specific technical term, you can go to your Library and read it up. 

The Open Drug Discovery Teams (ODDT) project is a mobile app primarily intended as a research topic aggregator of open science data integrated from various sources on the internet. It exists to facilitate interdisciplinary teamwork and to relieve the user from data overload. Initial research topics include areas of chemistry and adjacent molecule-oriented biomedical sciences, with an emphasis on those which are most amenable to open research at present. The ODDT project uses a free mobile app for iOS-based devices (iPhone, iPod and iPad) as the hub. The app has a Flipboard-inspired interface, and serverside infrastructure for hosting data and value added services. The project is open to participation from anyone, and much of the content is derived from public sources but is amenable to commercial data input and they are now looking for alpha testers. One of the key components is a back-end server that is in charge of monitoring the appearance of tweets with certain hash tags (#tuberculosis, #malaria, #hivaids, #huntingtons, #sanfilipposyndrome and #greenchemistry).

There is a screencast here to give you an idea of the functionality.

VVI® today announced the availability of Vvidget Code, its Graph SDK for iPhone, iPad and Mac, version 10.7.6, bringing the following improvements:

The features are extensive and shown by the Graph app on the iTunes and Mac App Store. All the graphs in those applications are now available in the new version. See the links: Graph for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch and Graph for Mac to install those applications and test the Vvidget Code Graph SDK.

A great tip from Dan at Dotmatics, if you want to know how your website might look on an iPhone/iPad use the iOS Simulator in the developers tools.

A chart & graph library for iOS and Mac OS X developers.

• Fully native Objective-C library for direct, easy use in any iOS XCode project.
• Several samples and demo projects to make integration and getting started a snap.
• Over 50 powerful graph types, including bar, line, area, pie, scatter, bubble and waterfall.
• An easy-to-use yet powerful object oriented API gives you full control over your charts with a minimum of effort.
• Real 3D graphs with controls to zoom, pan, rotate and skew!
• Adjust and control every element on every chart. Multiple Y-axis, depth effects, reference lines, scale controls and much more.
• The full power of the PGSDK (charting library of choice for MicroStrategy, IBM/Cognos and many more) now for your mobile application!

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.

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.

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,

MolPrime is a chemical structure drawing tool based on the unique sketcher from the Mobile Molecular DataSheet

Added to the Mobile Science Page.

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.

There are many more applications on the mobile science page.

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.

There are many more applications on the mobile science page.

The Mobile Molecular DataSheet (MMDS) v1.3.7 has had a bit of attention to the sketching interface, and now makes available the most commonly used small ring templates from the context menu:

There is a page of mobile apps for science here

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.

There is a page of mobile apps for science here

Mobile hardware and software technology continues to evolve very rapidly and presents drug discovery scientists with new platforms for accessing data and performing data analysis. Smartphones and tablet computers can now be used to perform many of the operations previously addressed by laptops or desktop computers. Although the smaller screen sizes and requirements for touch-screen manipulation can present user-interface design challenges, especially with chemistry-related applications, these limitations are driving innovative solutions. In this early review of the topic, we collectively present our diverse experiences as software developer, chemistry database expert and naïve user, in terms of what mobile platforms could provide to the drug discovery chemist in the way of applications in the future as this disruptive technology takes off.

I’ve updated the Mobile Science page of scientific applications for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch.

Math Touch added to Mobile Science Page.

I’ve updated the Mobile Science page of scientific applications for iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch.

Latest market share info from Net Applications.