What is it about?
This website has a large amount of solubility data from 18 volumes of the IUPAC solubility data that you can search by compound. The data has not been corrected if it was originally incorrect on the NIST website that the data was scraped from. This website is a a show and tell of what you can do to make chemical property data available on a REST style website.
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Why is it important?
This work is important because it shows how to setup a data repository website so that is easy for both humans and computers. It demonstrates how to use the model-view-controller (MVC) programming style to create a Representative State Transfer (REST) website. In addition, it shows how to create an Application Programming Interface (API) that can be used my over scripting languages to access the data.
Perspectives
This paper is about a project that I completed in one week. It was so fun to do. Writing PHP code to scrape the data off of the NIST Solubility Database website (http://srdata.nist.gov/solubility/) and putting it into a MySQL database was very cathartic as I felt I was rescuing the data and making it much more useful.
Dr Stuart J Chalk
University of North Florida
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This page is a summary of: Leveraging Web 2.0 technologies to add value to the IUPAC Solubility Data Series: development of a REST style website and application programming interface (API), Pure and Applied Chemistry, January 2015, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/pac-2015-0403.
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