Cheminformatics
Dr. Rumble has long been involved in the management, delivery, and exploitation of digital chemical information, now simply called Cheminformatics. In the 1980s, he was responsible for building some of the first PC-based chemical databases, while he was at NIST Gaithersburg. At the same time, he started efforts to develop chemistry metadata standards. As the Internet and Web developed and grew, he sponsored the development of NIST online chemical databases, including the NIST Chemistry Webbook.
Since 2016, Dr. Rumble has been Editor-in-Chief of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, the premier online and printed source of comprehensive high-quality data in these areas. He has expanded coverage of the online system and streamlined the print edition to increase its usability for students, teachers, and researchers in industry, academia, and government laboratories.
In recent years he has focused on assessment of the quality of chemical data, including work with the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Dr. Rumble continues to write and speak about cheminformtics.
Publications and Talks on Chemimformatics