We are thinking about creating a plugin for Mediawiki (the content management system that powers wikipedia.org and most other wikis) that would allow chemicalizing wiki pages automatically. With this, selected pages of your wiki would get chemical structure recognition capabilities.
The features would very strongly follow the existing WordPress plugin: automatically process content when it’s being edited; displaying the processed version where recognized names are underlined and on mouseover displaying a tooltip with the 2D structure image of that structure.
Help us to find out how useful this is to you, please fill out the survey below or share your thoughts in the comments section!
3 commentschemicalize.org currently provides only defaults or limited configuration for its services. We are planning to extend this with the ability to customize – and save to your profile – any calculation parameters and search options.
These customizations would expose a large number of settings provided by the underlying ChemAxon toolkits. We can use and combine these to create the customization options on chemicalize.org.
Regarding structure based calculations, this would mean that results on the datapage, e.g.: logD could let you define parameters such as: method, method weight, consider tautomers, precision of the results. (See wireframe example above). You can learn more about the available calculation parameters in the end user guide on chemaxon.com.
On the search pages, this means fine tuning search options, and filtering or sorting results by calculated properties (logP, pKa, etc…) of the hits. You can learn more about search options in the end user guide on chemaxon.com.
To help us finalize these plans, please fill out the short survey below or share your thoughts in the comments section!
2 commentsUpdate: Upcoming new feature – extract molecules from PDF files
To help understanding the chemistry in PDF files (research papers, white papers, patents, etc…), we are thinking about creating a new service for chemicalize.org that processes PDF files in the same manner as webpages. You could upload or link to a PDF file and get a modified version with the contained chemical structures highlighted and 2D structure image tooltips.
The technical challenge is threefold:
- displaying PDF files in a browser without requiring plugins
- modifying the PDF to deliver the same features as chemicalized webpages (i.e.: underline recognized names, add table of contents, etc…)
- in case of image based PDFs, perform OCR and accurately retrieve text for structure mining
For this reason, we ask for your feedback on how valuable this service would be to you. Please fill this short survey below or leave us a comment with your thoughts!
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