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Importance of data standards for
large scale data integration in
chemistry
Antony Williams, Valery Tkachenko, Alexey
Pshenichnov, Ken Karapetyan, Stuart Chalk,
Daniel Lowe and Carlos Coba
ACS Denver, March 2015
Free and Easy
• To make it easy to “take notes” these slides
will be available at:
www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams/
Charles Holland Duell
Charles Holland Duell
• 1898-1901: US Commissioner
of Patents
• "Everything that can be
invented has been invented."
Antony John Williams (et al)
Antony John Williams (et al)
• “We don’t need more
standards!”
• “Of COURSE we can build
a spectral database!”
• “The standards we have
are good enough”
A Pragmatic View to Progress
• Let’s consider progressing an NMR Spectral
database for the community!
• MUST HAVES– spectra (1D/2D), associated
structures, assignments
• WANTS – predict NMR spectra, spectral
searching, privacy/embargos
• What would we need in terms of standards?
• Molfiles and JCAMP
Standards without adoption..
Standards
2D NMR
Progress in standards
Progress in standards
Standards without adoption
are limited in value
• If the instrument vendors don’t support or
adopt the standards success is limited
• YESTERDAY discussion about publishing
NMR – JCAMP
• But what is already available will work – Jeol,
Bruker, Thermo, Anasazi, Agilent/Varian -
imperfect but useful
www.ChemSpider.com
9400 Spectra and growing
http://www.chemspider.com/spectra.aspx
JCAMP NMR Spectra
Data on ChemSpider
JCAMP file downloads
• When NMR spectra are stored as JCAMP
then downloads into offline packages are
feasible – MestreLabs, ACD/Labs etc
• Open Data – download versus view
• Store spectra locally and reuse
• Java is increasingly a pain!
• Need to move to HTML5 viewing on
ChemSpider, especially for Mobile Viewing
Challenges with Spectra
• JCAMP is good for a lot of spectral data – IR,
Raman, 1D NMR
• MS data is rarely made available in JCAMP
• We would love a ratified JCAMP 6.0 for 2D
data exchange – allows third parties to build
support for download
• ASSIGNED JCAMP spectra supported
Proper Verification
03/25/15
Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc.
(ACD/Labs)
20
Jmol - JSpecView
ChemDoodle Components
Spectral Display in the hand
New Repository Architecture
doi: 10.1007/s10822-014-9784-5
Compounds
Reactions
Analytical data
Deposition of Data
1,000,000 Spectra Online?
ESI – Text Spectra
Developing Proof-of-Concept
• Extract from 1976-2014 USPTO applications
*unknown – starts off with NMR: peak list (no nucleus)
H 975543
C 56536
unknown 44306
F 9429
P 3241
B 91
Si 62
Sn 22
Se 11
N 8
We want to find text spectra?
• We can find and index text spectra:13C NMR
(CDCl3, 100 MHz): δ = 14.12 (CH3), 30.11 (CH,
benzylic methane), 30.77 (CH, benzylic
methane), 66.12 (CH2), 68.49 (CH2), 117.72,
118.19, 120.29, 122.67, 123.37, 125.69, 125.84,
129.03, 130.00, 130.53 (ArCH), 99.42, 123.60,
134.69, 139.23, 147.21, 147.61, 149.41,
152.62, 154.88 (ArC)
• What would be better are spectral figures – and
include assignments where possible!
MestreLabs Mnova NMR
1H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz):
δ = 2.57 (m, 4H, Me, C(5a)H), 4.24 (d, 1H, J = 4.8 Hz, C(11b)H), 4.35 (t,
1H, Jb = 10.8 Hz, C(6)H), 4.47 (m, 2H, C(5)H), 4.57 (dd, 1H, J = 2.8 Hz,
C(6)H), 6.95 (d, 1H, J = 8.4 Hz, ArH), 7.18–7.94 (m, 11H, ArH)
13C NMR (CDCl3, 100 MHz): δ = 14.12 (CH3), 30.11 (CH, benzylic methane),
30.77 (CH, benzylic methane), 66.12 (CH2), 68.49 (CH2), 117.72, 118.19,
120.29, 122.67, 123.37, 125.69, 125.84, 129.03, 130.00, 130.53 (ArCH), 99.42,
123.60, 134.69, 139.23, 147.21, 147.61, 149.41, 152.62, 154.88 (ArC)
ESI Data also contains figures
Publications & “Real Spectra”
• We are turning text into spectra
• We are turning figures into spectra
Early Test Experiments

Input

74 supplementary data documents. 3444 pages

Output

Plot2Txt extracted content from 1069 pages

1151 spectra total - >80% of peaks extracted to
within 1-2 decimal places (ppm)
“Where is the real data please?”
FIGURE
DATA
Manual Curation Layer
• ALL SPECTRA WILL BE STORED AS JCAMP
• ChemSpider has had a manual curation layer
for >8 years
• Users can annotate data on ChemSpider
• We do receive useful feedback from the
community on the data and are optimistic!
Extraction is the WRONG WAY
• We should NOT mine data out – digital form!
• Structures should be submitted “correctly”
• Spectra should be digital spectral formats,
not images
• ESI should be RICH and interactive
• Data should be open, available, with meta
data and provenance
We can solve for Authors here
Will it be used though??? YES!
Supplementary Info Data now..
Data mining – it’s MINE!!!
What should we be doing?
• Settle on a short-term format – JCAMP-JMOL?
But there ARE solutions!
But there ARE solutions!
What should we be doing?
• Settle on a short-term format – JCAMP-JMOL?
• Convince the instrument vendors to export in
this format
• Push button depositions into “containers” –
ChemSpider, NMRShiftDB, Institutional
Repositories
• Encourage format support in software (read
and write) – Mestre, ACD/Labs, Bruker
TopSpin, etc.
NMRShiftDB anyone?
Standards in Large Scale
Data Integration
• ALL of these are imperfect standards
• Molfiles
• SDF
• InChI
• JCAMP
• But what can be done with them?
Compound Data
• The standards of chemical structure handling
are primarily molfile, SDfile, SMILES, InChI
• We primarily depend on molfiles and SDF
files for data deposition and interchange
• We use InChI a lot – especially for integrated
searching across the web
Searching the Entire Web?
Searching Internet by Structure
Compound Data
• The standards of chemical structure handling
are primarily molfile, SDfile, SMILES, InChI
• We primarily depend on molfiles and SDF
files for data deposition and interchange
• We use InChI a lot – especially for integrated
searching across the web
• There ARE data interchange problems
associated with structures….
USE and TEACH Standards
• Too few people are aware of the existing
standards and their capabilities
• Part of the CINF mission activities should be
to teach standards and this is being done
• Still too few people have heard of InChI and
JCAMP for example
• Still little known about the importance of
correct structure representations – kudos to
people like Leah et al who TEACH THIS!
USE and TEACH Standards!
USE and TEACH Standards!
CVSP: Validate and Standardize
CVSP Rules Sets
CVSP Filtering of DrugBank
Compounds
Reactions
Use Ontologies
Importance of data standards for large scale data integration in chemistry
Contribute to PUBLIC
Ontologies
• Yes there are “company” ontologies – but for
the good of the community contribute to
public ontologies and standards
• For data interchange and meshing this is
soooooo beneficial!
ChAMP – Stuart Chalk
Use standards in APIs,
endpoints and widgets
Semanticize content : RDF
Actions
• Support and encourage new standards
• In the meantime, reawaken and modernize the
JCAMP standard
• Show up and listen to Bob Hanson today
• Encourage scientists to provide data
Charles Holland Duell in 1902
“…all previous advances in the
various lines of invention will
appear totally insignificant when
compared with those which the
present century will witness.
I almost wish that I might live my
life over again to see the wonders
which are at the threshold”
“Git-r-Done”
Acknowledgments
• Daniel Lowe – NextMove, Reactions and Spectra
• Bill Brouwer – Plot2Txt Development
• Carlos Cobas and Stan Sykora– MestreLabs
• The ChemSpider team – led by Richard Kidd
• The RSC Data Repository team
Thank you
Email: williamsa@rsc.org
ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821
Twitter: @ChemConnector
Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com
SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams

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Importance of data standards for large scale data integration in chemistry

  • 1. Importance of data standards for large scale data integration in chemistry Antony Williams, Valery Tkachenko, Alexey Pshenichnov, Ken Karapetyan, Stuart Chalk, Daniel Lowe and Carlos Coba ACS Denver, March 2015
  • 2. Free and Easy • To make it easy to “take notes” these slides will be available at: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams/
  • 4. Charles Holland Duell • 1898-1901: US Commissioner of Patents • "Everything that can be invented has been invented."
  • 6. Antony John Williams (et al) • “We don’t need more standards!” • “Of COURSE we can build a spectral database!” • “The standards we have are good enough”
  • 7. A Pragmatic View to Progress • Let’s consider progressing an NMR Spectral database for the community! • MUST HAVES– spectra (1D/2D), associated structures, assignments • WANTS – predict NMR spectra, spectral searching, privacy/embargos • What would we need in terms of standards? • Molfiles and JCAMP
  • 13. Standards without adoption are limited in value • If the instrument vendors don’t support or adopt the standards success is limited • YESTERDAY discussion about publishing NMR – JCAMP • But what is already available will work – Jeol, Bruker, Thermo, Anasazi, Agilent/Varian - imperfect but useful
  • 15. 9400 Spectra and growing http://www.chemspider.com/spectra.aspx
  • 18. JCAMP file downloads • When NMR spectra are stored as JCAMP then downloads into offline packages are feasible – MestreLabs, ACD/Labs etc • Open Data – download versus view • Store spectra locally and reuse • Java is increasingly a pain! • Need to move to HTML5 viewing on ChemSpider, especially for Mobile Viewing
  • 19. Challenges with Spectra • JCAMP is good for a lot of spectral data – IR, Raman, 1D NMR • MS data is rarely made available in JCAMP • We would love a ratified JCAMP 6.0 for 2D data exchange – allows third parties to build support for download • ASSIGNED JCAMP spectra supported
  • 20. Proper Verification 03/25/15 Advanced Chemistry Development, Inc. (ACD/Labs) 20
  • 24. New Repository Architecture doi: 10.1007/s10822-014-9784-5
  • 30. ESI – Text Spectra
  • 31. Developing Proof-of-Concept • Extract from 1976-2014 USPTO applications *unknown – starts off with NMR: peak list (no nucleus) H 975543 C 56536 unknown 44306 F 9429 P 3241 B 91 Si 62 Sn 22 Se 11 N 8
  • 32. We want to find text spectra? • We can find and index text spectra:13C NMR (CDCl3, 100 MHz): δ = 14.12 (CH3), 30.11 (CH, benzylic methane), 30.77 (CH, benzylic methane), 66.12 (CH2), 68.49 (CH2), 117.72, 118.19, 120.29, 122.67, 123.37, 125.69, 125.84, 129.03, 130.00, 130.53 (ArCH), 99.42, 123.60, 134.69, 139.23, 147.21, 147.61, 149.41, 152.62, 154.88 (ArC) • What would be better are spectral figures – and include assignments where possible!
  • 34. 1H NMR (CDCl3, 400 MHz): δ = 2.57 (m, 4H, Me, C(5a)H), 4.24 (d, 1H, J = 4.8 Hz, C(11b)H), 4.35 (t, 1H, Jb = 10.8 Hz, C(6)H), 4.47 (m, 2H, C(5)H), 4.57 (dd, 1H, J = 2.8 Hz, C(6)H), 6.95 (d, 1H, J = 8.4 Hz, ArH), 7.18–7.94 (m, 11H, ArH)
  • 35. 13C NMR (CDCl3, 100 MHz): δ = 14.12 (CH3), 30.11 (CH, benzylic methane), 30.77 (CH, benzylic methane), 66.12 (CH2), 68.49 (CH2), 117.72, 118.19, 120.29, 122.67, 123.37, 125.69, 125.84, 129.03, 130.00, 130.53 (ArCH), 99.42, 123.60, 134.69, 139.23, 147.21, 147.61, 149.41, 152.62, 154.88 (ArC)
  • 36. ESI Data also contains figures
  • 37. Publications & “Real Spectra” • We are turning text into spectra • We are turning figures into spectra
  • 38. Early Test Experiments  Input  74 supplementary data documents. 3444 pages  Output  Plot2Txt extracted content from 1069 pages  1151 spectra total - >80% of peaks extracted to within 1-2 decimal places (ppm)
  • 39. “Where is the real data please?” FIGURE DATA
  • 40. Manual Curation Layer • ALL SPECTRA WILL BE STORED AS JCAMP • ChemSpider has had a manual curation layer for >8 years • Users can annotate data on ChemSpider • We do receive useful feedback from the community on the data and are optimistic!
  • 41. Extraction is the WRONG WAY • We should NOT mine data out – digital form! • Structures should be submitted “correctly” • Spectra should be digital spectral formats, not images • ESI should be RICH and interactive • Data should be open, available, with meta data and provenance
  • 42. We can solve for Authors here Will it be used though??? YES!
  • 44. Data mining – it’s MINE!!!
  • 45. What should we be doing? • Settle on a short-term format – JCAMP-JMOL?
  • 46. But there ARE solutions!
  • 47. But there ARE solutions!
  • 48. What should we be doing? • Settle on a short-term format – JCAMP-JMOL? • Convince the instrument vendors to export in this format • Push button depositions into “containers” – ChemSpider, NMRShiftDB, Institutional Repositories • Encourage format support in software (read and write) – Mestre, ACD/Labs, Bruker TopSpin, etc.
  • 50. Standards in Large Scale Data Integration • ALL of these are imperfect standards • Molfiles • SDF • InChI • JCAMP • But what can be done with them?
  • 51. Compound Data • The standards of chemical structure handling are primarily molfile, SDfile, SMILES, InChI • We primarily depend on molfiles and SDF files for data deposition and interchange • We use InChI a lot – especially for integrated searching across the web
  • 54. Compound Data • The standards of chemical structure handling are primarily molfile, SDfile, SMILES, InChI • We primarily depend on molfiles and SDF files for data deposition and interchange • We use InChI a lot – especially for integrated searching across the web • There ARE data interchange problems associated with structures….
  • 55. USE and TEACH Standards • Too few people are aware of the existing standards and their capabilities • Part of the CINF mission activities should be to teach standards and this is being done • Still too few people have heard of InChI and JCAMP for example • Still little known about the importance of correct structure representations – kudos to people like Leah et al who TEACH THIS!
  • 56. USE and TEACH Standards!
  • 57. USE and TEACH Standards!
  • 58. CVSP: Validate and Standardize
  • 60. CVSP Filtering of DrugBank
  • 65. Contribute to PUBLIC Ontologies • Yes there are “company” ontologies – but for the good of the community contribute to public ontologies and standards • For data interchange and meshing this is soooooo beneficial!
  • 67. Use standards in APIs, endpoints and widgets
  • 69. Actions • Support and encourage new standards • In the meantime, reawaken and modernize the JCAMP standard • Show up and listen to Bob Hanson today • Encourage scientists to provide data
  • 70. Charles Holland Duell in 1902 “…all previous advances in the various lines of invention will appear totally insignificant when compared with those which the present century will witness. I almost wish that I might live my life over again to see the wonders which are at the threshold”
  • 72. Acknowledgments • Daniel Lowe – NextMove, Reactions and Spectra • Bill Brouwer – Plot2Txt Development • Carlos Cobas and Stan Sykora– MestreLabs • The ChemSpider team – led by Richard Kidd • The RSC Data Repository team
  • 73. Thank you Email: williamsa@rsc.org ORCID: 0000-0002-2668-4821 Twitter: @ChemConnector Personal Blog: www.chemconnector.com SLIDES: www.slideshare.net/AntonyWilliams

Editor's Notes

  • #21: All lines up nicely.