ChemConnector

Antony Williams is the VP of Strategic Development for the Royal Society of Chemistry and manager of the cheminformatics team for the RSC. His scientific expertise is presently focused in the fields of chemical structure representation, analytical data management and prediction and computer-assisted structure elucidation. His passion for integrated data management and a vision of aggregating chemical compound data on the internet initiated a hobby project to develop the ChemSpider database, acquired by the Royal Society of Chemistry and now providing access to >30 million chemicals online. He is widely published with > 150 publications and book chapters and is the ChemConnector in the social networks. He has worked on the quality of chemistry content on Wikipedia, is a recipient of the Jim Gray award for eScience from Microsoft and is particularly focused at this time in helping scientists understand the power of the web for social networking in the sciences.