The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced a collaboration with ChemZoo Inc., US, host of chemistry search engine ChemSpider, to develop an InChI Resolver, a free service for scientists to share chemical structures and data. Using the InChI - an IUPAC standard identifier for compounds - scientists can share and contribute their own molecular data and search millions of others from many web sources.
The RSC/ChemSpider InChI Resolver will give researchers the tools to create standard InChI data for their own compounds, create and use search engine-friendly InChIKeys to search for compounds, and deposit their data for others to use in the future.
The InChI Resolver will be based on ChemSpider's existing database of over 21 million chemical compounds and will provide the first stable environment to promote the use and sharing of compound data. ChemSpider hosts the largest and most diverse online database of chemical structures sourced from over 150 different data sources.
