The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced the acquisition of ChemSpider, a free online service providing a structure centric community for chemists.
This acquisition complements RSC's existing leading role in online chemistry, including award-winning semantic mark-up technology and the release of the InChI resolver, recently launched in partnership with ChemSpider. Providing access to almost 21.5 million unique chemical entities sourced from over 200 different data sources and integration to a multitude of other online services, ChemSpider claims to be the richest single source of structure-based chemistry information.
RSC acquired ChemSpider with the aim to fulfil its strategic objective of disseminating knowledge to the chemical community and advancing the chemical sciences. In partnership, RSC and ChemSpider will provide innovative services on a reliable infrastructure to service the chemical community and bring new opportunities for publishing and cheminformatics that will radically improve the online research environment. The ChemSpider development team will continue to be located in the US and the ChemSpider website will be re-launched later in the year.
