Mapping Chemistry

印第安纳大学的凯蒂·博尔纳教授和桑迪亚国家实验室的凯文·博亚克博士得到了分析和表面化学计划的探索研究(SGER)小额赠款的支持，以研究化学、生物化学和生命科学之间的相互联系及其随时间的演变。这个想法是利用先进的数据挖掘和可视化技术来分析过去30年里大约1300种与化学、生物化学和生命科学相关的期刊中论文的引文链接。知识领域地图将被用来传达这两个科学领域随着时间的推移的增长以及它们的相互引用模式。工作计划包括数据清理和解析，绘制和分析领域结构，确定跨学科信息生产者和消费者，传播信息研究，以及与化学和生命科学领域专家合作进行验证。这一概念验证项目将创建基线可视化，展示知识领域映射技术的潜力，以更好地为需要准确了解当前科学和技术基础设施的项目决策提供信息。化学和生物学之间跨学科领域的新机遇值得研究，以便研究界评估下一步的最佳方案。该项目将支持研究型大学/研究型实验室合作的研究生。这项活动是及时的，因为数字化信息的爆炸性增长、存储和计算能力成本的降低、快速图形处理器的开发以及系统之间的连接扩大，都促进了可视化的开发和利用。

Professor Katy Boerner of the University of Indiana and Dr. Kevin Boyack of Sandia National Laboratories are supported with a Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) from the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program to study the interconnections between chemistry, biochemistry and the life sciences and their evolution in time. The idea is to utilize advanced data mining and visualization techniques to analyze citation links among papers in the approximately 1300 journals related to chemistry, biochemistry and the life sciences over the past 30 years. Knowledge domain maps will be employed to communicate the growth of both fields of science over time as well as their inter-citations patterns. The work plan includes data cleaning and parsing, mapping and analyzing the structure of the domains, identification of interdisciplinary information producers and consumers, diffusion of information studies, and validation in cooperation with domain experts in chemistry and the life sciences.This proof-of-concept project will create baseline visualizations that show the potential of knowledge domain mapping techniques to better inform decisions on programs that require accurate knowledge of the current science and technology infrastructure. New opportunities in the interdisciplinary areas between chemistry and biology merit study in order for the research community to evaluate the best next steps. This project will support graduate students in a research university/research lab collaboration. The activity is timely, as the development and utilization of visualizations is facilitated by the explosion of information available digitally, the decreasing cost of storage and computing power, the development of fast graphics processors, as well as expanding connectivity between systems.