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ChemSpider is a free access online Chemistry database made available with the intention of "Building a Structure Centric Community for Chemists".

Database
The database content includes chemical structures and associated data made available via contributions from other online databases, commercial databases, journal publishers and online depositions contributed by ChemSpider users. The available data include structures, analytical data, systematic and non-systematic chemical identifiers and supplementary information including links to patents, related articles and webpages, including Wikipedia. The system offers a unique capability in the domain of online chemistry databases by allowing both curation of data already available on the database as well as the submission of new data to the database. In particular, users can edit and remove incorrect chemical identifiers associated with a chemical structure and add identifiers and supplementary information to existing structure records. Also, new chemical structures, not presently on the ChemSpider database, can be added to the system with associated information such as general descriptions of the compound, links to publications via Digital Object Identifiers or PubMed ID.

Searching
It is possible to search the database by chemical structure and substructure, by text (names, identifiers, registry numbers), by intrinsic properties (Mass, Formula,etc) and by predicted properties (logP, [logD], boiling point, and others). ChemSpider also hosts ChemRefer capabilities on site allowing text searching of Open Access chemistry literature.

Services
ChemSpider provides a number of online services for chemists. These include the ability to convert chemical names and identifiers to chemical structures and to predict properties for submitted chemical structures logP, boiling point, and others). A number of web services have been made available supporting InChI generation, chemical structure format conversions and lookup of structures on ChemSpider via various types of searches.

Open Notebook Science
ChemSpider is working to support the efforts of some of the groups working in the domain of Open Notebook Science.