Scilligence, a provider of cheminformatics and bioinformatics solutions for the life sciences industry, has selected Elsevier's Reaxys to help chemists improve efficiency and productivity.
Chemists often begin their work by following a manual process, searching for information and transferring that information between platforms, then typing in experimental details from references – all before going into the lab to run an experiment. This cumbersome process can introduce errors at multiple points. The ELN-Reaxys integration will allow chemists to search Reaxys for reactions of interest via the Scilligence electronic lab notebook (ELN) and retrieve appropriate reaction information and relevant references into their ELN. This will eliminate the need to copy/paste or draw manually, helping chemists streamline this process, maintain greater levels of transparency and reduce time and errors.
Further, making data FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable) is an industry-wide expectation. Elsevier is at the forefront of the adoption of FAIR principles, with several Elsevier officials participating in the framework's original committee.
The Scilligence-Reaxys alliance will, in the near future, lower even further the barriers between these silos. The Unified Data Model (UDM) data format maintained by the Pistoia Alliance will be established as the standard data exchange format for reactions between the Scilligence ELN and Reaxys. Hence, chemists will be able to transfer data from Reaxys into the Scilligence ELN. Also, data exported from the Scilligence ELN can be incorporated into Reaxys, reducing the need for the user to establish data transformation processes.
Reaxys retrieves literature, compound properties and chemical reaction data faster than any other solution and, together with Reaxys Medicinal Chemistry (RMC), offers pharma companies a 'one stop shop' chemistry ecosystem thanks to its integration capabilities, innovative APIs, and bioactivity data. The Reaxys platform contains over 240 years of unparalleled chemistry content, including: 119 million organic, inorganic and organometallic compounds, 46 million chemical reactions, 500 million published experimental facts, 16,000 chemistry related periodicals, Asian, European and US patents, and six indexing sources for a cross-disciplinary view of chemistry. RMC offers access to data from a vast repository of peer-reviewed journal articles and patents and is interoperable with Reaxys, https://www.elsevier.com/solutions/reaxys.
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