In the September 2010 BioTechiques editorial, we surveyed a handful of applications designed with the bench scientist in mind.
In the "iPad Apps for Scientists" article series, we expand upon that collection to include useful iPad and iPhone applications for life scientists.
We encourage you to join in the discussion by sharing your favorite apps in the Molecular Biology Forums.
Other "iPad Apps for Scientsist" articles: Fluorescent imaging | Scientific calculators | Taking PubMed to the next level | Proteins on display
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PubMed—which contains over 20 million citations for published biomedical research papers—is a staple resource for scientists, doctors, and students alike. Although the PubMed website can be accessed from the iPad through its web browser, or from the iPhone through a stripped down mobile site, why not use your mobile device to search the database with some style?
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Papers
the top-tier search engines, including PubMed, JSTOR, Google Scholar, Web of Science, Arxiv, and ACM. The app is also integrated with EZ-Proxy settings, giving users access to their institution’s subscriptions.
With downloaded PDFs, users can add their own comments and highlight sections of text with multiple colors. Comments are marked by a simple red dot, so notes can be written at length without distracting from the main text. File and filter options—such as author, publication, flagged, or newly downloaded—make searching through archived articles easy. Articles can be organized into new collections or emailed to colleagues in an abridged format.
Papers for iPad is bundled with its iPhone app, so if you already have the program on one device, a quick sync to iTunes is all it takes to play on a new screen at no extra charge.
Name: Papers (iTunes)
Price: $14.99
Platforms: iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad
Developer website: Mekentosj, B.V., http://mekentosj.com/papers/ipad
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PubMed On Tap
Full-text PDFs can be opened in an internal browser or requested via the Loansome Doc Ordering System. Articles and citations can be emailed and formatted for seamless import to reference management applications such as Bookends or Endnote.
A free version of PubMed On Tap, called PubMed On Tap Lite, has the same features but limits the results for each saved search and the viewable library references to ten.
Name: PubMed OnTap Lite (iTunes), PubMed On Tap Lite (iTunes)
Price: $2.99, Free
Platforms: iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad
Developer website: References On Tap, http://www.referencesontap.com/
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We encourage you to join in the discussion by sharing your favorite apps in the Molecular Biology Forums.
Other "iPad Apps for Scientsist" articles: Fluorescent imaging | Scientific calculators | Taking PubMed to the next level | Proteins on display
