The PSDI is an EPSRC-funded National Research Facility provided by the University of Southampton, and Science and Technology Facilities Council. Its purpose is to provide a common access point to data resources within the Physical Sciences to all staff, students and other members of UK academic institutions.
By providing a common point of access, free at the point of use, the service benefits the research community by maximising the use of resources via common academic licensing, and adding value as a common hub for aggregating and integrating data resources for the Physical Sciences.
The online platform currently provides access to a number of state-of-the-art chemistry databases and tools for the benefit of the research community. The SRSG integrated tools for file-format conversion to enable researchers to quickly and easily transform data without the need to install the software locally.
“I’ve worked with [commercial] software engineers, and when you have to spend half a day explaining what a molecule is, it’s quite tough. With the SRSG I’m able to dip into a pool of expertise. I can just say ‘Can we add this new functionality, to make it do this new thing?’”
Professor Simon Coles
Structural Chemistry, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering