Finding Molecules With eMolecules

February 24th, 2008  |  Published in Academic, tools  |  2 Comments

eMolecules searches the Internet for chemistry-related information — more specifically, information about molecules.

You can draw a molecule or molecule substructure – using a popup Java applet. Once you’ve drawn the molecule, eMolecules “translates” your drawing to a search engine query.

We know – this is kind of geeky. But don’t you agree it’s pretty cool?

If you want to do text-based searching, you can do that too. Even by trade name.

Here is Advil. Who would have thought?advil.bmp

2 Responses to “Finding Molecules With eMolecules”

  1. ChemSpiderMan says:
    February 25, 2008 at 11:04 am

    You might be interested in ChemSpider also. eMolecules is about 8 million compounds while ChemSpider is approaching 20 million compounds.

    You can search by text, chemical property, structure or substructure. An overview of the site is given here:

    http://www.chemspider.com/docs/ChemSpider_Overview_SLides_August_2007.pdf

    The advantages of this site are many fold but includes user-curation of the data, the ability to upload new structures to the site and the presence of analytical data on the site also.

    The Blog describes a lot of what we do: http://www.chemspider.com/blog/

    Best wishes.

  2. wendy says:
    March 1, 2008 at 8:35 am

    Thanks for the info! We’re always looking for new resources.

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