In order to provide access to relevant data to users ChemSeer provides new features that are not available in traditional search engines or digital libraries.
# Chemical Entity Search: A tool capable of identifying Chemical formulae and chemical names, and extracting and disambiguating them from general terms within documents. Those disambiguated terms are used for performing searches.
# TableSeer: In scholarly articles Tables are used to present, list, summarize, and structure important data. TableSeer automatically identifies tables in digital documents, extracts the table Metadata as well as the cells content, and stores them in such a way that allows users to either query the table content or search for tables in a large set of documents.
# Dataset search: ChemSeer provides tools to incorporate datasets from different experiments sources. The system is able to manipulate results from multiple formats such as XML, Microsoft Excel, Gaussian, and CHARMM, create databases, to allow direct queries over the data, create Metadata, using an annotation tool, which will allow users to search over the datasets, as well as a way to create links among datasets and/or between datasets and documents.
In addition to these tools, ChemSeer will integrate the advances made by its sister project CiteSeer to provide:
* Full text search
* Author, affiliation, title and venue search
* Citation and acknowledgement search
* Citation linking and statistics