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Nature Chemistry goes live |
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19 March 2009 |
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The first issue of Nature Chemistry went live in March. The inaugural issue covers the breadth of chemistry, from inorganic microtubes to theoretical studies of how water behaves in detonations.
Nature Chemistry has evolved its production processes, including redrawing compound structures submitted by authors to be machine-readable and converting these structures to International Chemical Identifiers (InChIs). An open source initiative, InChIs are an alpha-numeric way of representing a chemical structure, are unique to the compound they describe and can encode absolute stereochemistry. Machine-readable, InChIs enable data-mining and detailed linking between articles, databases and other information sources.
Articles in Nature Chemistry are annotated to identify all of the chemical compounds mentioned throughout the text. Users can choose to view the article with all of the compounds highlighted, and find out more about those compounds by linking out to other information resources including PubChem and ChemSpider.
Articles include other online features. Pop-up images of chemical structures are associated with the bold compound numbers, used to reference compounds, in article text. Users can click on the bold compound number to view enhanced compound pages, created by the Nature Chemistry team. These compound pages provide Chemdraw files, 3-D structures, elemental analysis, links to external databases and other information.
A monthly journal, Nature Chemistry publishes papers that describe significant research in all areas of chemistry. The Nature Chemistry team consulted with the chemistry community on the journal's development, including through the Nature Chemistry Facebook group and the Sceptical Chymist blog. The Nature Chemistry team is on Twitter, and chemistry news from across NPG is available on the chemistry podcast, ChemPod.
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