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Conflict of Interest disclosure - I work on the ChemSpider database at the Royal Society of Chemistry. My role involves curating data on ChemSpider, as well as providing user support and training.
My background is in Art Conservation, with a generous helping of Chemistry (particularly Organic Chemistry). I'm interested in data and information, and anything that sits at the intersection of science and the humanities, particularly conservation science and archaeometry. I am generally quite up-to-date in developments in medicine, due in part to a mild case of hypochondriacal OCD... This combines with a passion for rational skepticism, and I have a particular fondness for where they overlap (particularly evidence-based medicine).
Most of my edits are to ChemBoxes and Drugboxes as part of the Chemicals and Pharmacology Wikiprojects. I verify my changes against data found in ChemSpider, Royal Society of Chemistry journals and databases, and specialist resources like ChEBI or DrugBank.
This will frequently involve adding or fixing:
- IUPAC names and other identifiers
- Pharmaceutical nomenclature, including generic names like INNs and USANs
- UNIIs, EINECS and CAS numbers
- Database IDs, such as ChEBI, ChEMBL, ChemSpider, MeSH or PubChem IDs
- Intrinsic properties, like molecular formulae or molecular mass
- Structural line notations like SMILES strings and InChIs - especially making sure their Stereochemistry is correct
- Chemical structure drawings
My goal is to improve the quality and coverage of chemical and pharmaceutical data on Wikipedia, and enrich and improve these pages for chemists, people working in the broader chemical and medical fields, students of chemistry and related subjects, and the general public.
I also fix grammatical errors, and tweak sentence structure to improve clarity. One of my cousins once described me as "exactly the sort of person who would edit Wikipedia for grammar", and I really couldn't argue...