Chem_XSeer project, funded by the National Science Foundation, is a public integrated

digital library A digital library, also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, or a digital collection is an online database of digital objects that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital documents, or other digital me ...

, database, and

search engine A search engine is a software system designed to carry out web searches. They search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a textual web search query. The search results are generally presented in a ...

for scientific papers in

chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

. It is being developed by a multidisciplinary team of researchers at the

Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State or PSU) is a Public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related Land-grant university, land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvan ...

. Chem_XSeer was conceived by Dr. Prasenjit Mitra, Dr. Lee Giles and Dr. Karl Mueller as a way to integrate the chemical scientific literature with experimental, analytical, and simulation data from different types of experimental systems. The goal of the project is to create an intelligent search and database which will provide access to relevant data to a diverse community of users who have a need for chemical information. It is hosted on the

World Wide Web The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system enabling documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet. Documents and downloadable media are made available to the network through web se ...

at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, The

Features

In order to provide access to relevant data to users Chem_XSeer provides new features that are not available in traditional search engines or digital libraries. #

Chemical Entity A molecular entity, or chemical entity, is "any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, Radical (chemistry), radical, radical ion, complex (chemistry), complex, conformational isomerism, conformer, etc., identifiable ...

Search: A tool capable of identifying

Chemical formula In chemistry, a chemical formula is a way of presenting information about the chemical proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound or molecule, using chemical element symbols, numbers, and sometimes also other symbols, ...

e and

chemical name A chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). The ...

s, and extracting and disambiguating them from general terms within documents. Those disambiguated terms are used for performing searches. # TableSeer: In scholarly articles Tables are used to present, list, summarize, and structure important data. TableSeer automatically identifies tables in digital documents, extracts the table

Metadata Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...

as well as the cells content, and stores them in such a way that allows users to either query the table content or search for tables in a large set of documents. # Dataset search: Chem_XSeer provides tools to incorporate datasets from different experiments sources. The system is able to manipulate results from multiple formats such as

XML Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. T ...

Microsoft Excel Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet developed by Microsoft for Microsoft Windows, Windows, macOS, Android (operating system), Android and iOS. It features calculation or computation capabilities, graphing tools, pivot tables, and a macro (comp ...

Gaussian Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777–1855) is the eponym of all of the topics listed below. There are over 100 topics all named after this German mathematician and scientist, all in the fields of mathematics, physics, and astronomy. The English eponymo ...

, and

CHARMM Chemistry at Harvard Macromolecular Mechanics (CHARMM) is the name of a widely used set of force fields for molecular dynamics, and the name for the molecular dynamics simulation and analysis computer software package associated with them. The CHA ...

, create databases, to allow direct queries over the data, create

, using an annotation tool, which will allow users to search over the datasets, as well as a way to create links among datasets and/or between datasets and documents. In addition to these tools, Chem_XSeer will integrate the advances made by its sister project CiteSeer^X to provide: * Full text search * Author, affiliation, title and venue search * Citation and acknowledgement search * Citation linking and statistics

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External links

Chem_XSeer Official web site

Critical Zone Exploration Network (CZEN)

Center for Environmental Kinetics Analysis (CEKA)
Eprint archives Internet search engines Library 2.0 Open-access archives Environmental chemistry Pennsylvania State University Bibliographic databases and indexes

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