The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its free online chemistry database, ChemSpider, was awarded the ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation 2010 in a shortlist of four. This is ChemSpider's third award of the year.
The ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation recognises a significantly innovative approach to any aspect of publication. The judges considered the originality and innovative qualities of each application, together with its utility, benefit to its community and long term development prospects.
ChemSpider, which won the iExpo/KM Forum 2010 'Most Innovative Software' award in June on the back of the Bio-IT Best Practice Award for Community Service in April, links together compound information across the web, providing free text and structure search access of millions of chemical structures. With an abundance of additional property information, tools to curate and use the data, and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider claims to be the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information available online.
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