Chemical Information (ELN)

The goal is to provide services to facilitate chemistry-based research.

We ensure the following services:

  • Software installation
  • Support for secure data storage
  • Experimental data archiving
  • Perennity of the information
  • Chemical stock management
  • Storage and on-line processing of analytic results
  • Development of cheminformatics tools for data mining and results analysis

Programs and computer resources for chemistry available at ISIC

During the last 20 years we have been involved in the development of many tools accessible from the internet that are used by over 10’000 chemists every day !

Some tools are worldwide recognized and are top-ranked in google:

The development of a database allowing to store any kind of information as well as to track analytical requests has been an important project and is available internally at (https://eln.epfl.ch). Many innovative programs allowing to visualize and analyse the data were developed to reach this goal and recently were used to teach structural analysis, cheminformatics and organic chemistry on-line.

Currently the automatic analysis of NMR spectra as well as the data mining of NMR, IR and mass spectra are our main research topics.

Sample submission ELN guidelines

For the sample submission form, if you don’t have an EPFL login, you should FIRST create a Guest account on the link https://guests.epfl.ch/

Then login with this guest user id and PW on eln.epfl.ch. Either use your Gaspar identification.

In case of any problem for the sample submission process on eln.epfl.ch, you can contact the ELN team ([email protected])

 

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Publications

2026

Vaping with a Mass Spectrometer — On the Road to Profile all Chemicals in E-Cigarette Puffs in Minutes

Y-Q. Gao; N. Gasilova; J-C. Wolf; L. Patiny; L. Menin et al. 

CHIMIA. 2026. Vol. 80, num. 3. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2026.178.

OctoChemDB: An Aggregated Database for Small Molecule Identification Using High-Resolution MS Data

R. Silvestre; R. Martinent; L. Menin; N. Gasilova; V. Mutel et al. 

Analytical Chemistry. 2026. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.5c06761.

2025

Research Data Lunch Talk – 15th meeting – Open Data and Open Source: Ensuring Longevity Beyond the Project

J-P. Hubaux; D. Gillet; L. Patiny; J-F. Molinari; C. Gabella et al. 

15th Research Data Lunch Talk, EPFL, Lausanne, Suisse, 2025-02-13.

2024

Rapid Untargeted Puff-by-Puff Analysis of (Electronic) Cigarette Emissions by Concentric Dielectric Barrier Discharge Ionisation Mass Spectrometry

Y. Q. Gao; N. Gasilova; J. C. Wolf; L. Patiny; L. Menin et al. 

Analysis and Sensing. 2024. DOI : 10.1002/anse.202400079.

2023

Two Decades of Online Teaching: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions

R. Turin; L. Patiny 

Chimia. 2023. Vol. 77, num. 10, p. 683 – 687. DOI : 10.2533/chimia.2023.683.

2022

Making the collective knowledge of chemistry open and machine actionable

K. M. Jablonka; L. Patiny; B. Smit 

Nature Chemistry. 2022. Vol. 14, num. 4, p. 365 – 376. DOI : 10.1038/s41557-022-00910-7.

Making Molecules Vibrate: Interactive Web Environment for the Teaching of Infrared Spectroscopy

K. M. Jablonka; L. Patiny; B. Smit 

Journal Of Chemical Education. 2022. Vol. 99, num. 2, p. 561 – 569. DOI : 10.1021/acs.jchemed.1c01101.

Simultaneous mass spectrometry analysis of cisplatin with oligonucleotide-peptide mixtures: implications for the mechanism of action

F. Mansouri; L. Patiny; D. Ortiz; L. Menin; C. A. Davey et al. 

JBIC Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry. 2022. Vol. 27, p. 239 – 248. DOI : 10.1007/s00775-022-01924-9.

2021

Nature-Inspired Circular-Economy Recycling for Proteins: Proof of Concept

S. Giaveri; A. M. Schmitt; L. Roset Julia; V. Scamarcio; A. Murello et al. 

Advanced Materials. 2021.  p. 2104581. DOI : 10.1002/adma.202104581.

Participatory research to monitor lake water pollution

R. Aronoff; A. Dussuet; R. Erismann; S. Erismann; L. Patiny et al. 

Ecological Solutions And Evidence. 2021. Vol. 2, num. 3, p. e12094. DOI : 10.1002/2688-8319.12094.

A data-driven perspective on the colours of metal-organic frameworks

K. M. Jablonka; S. M. Moosavi; M. Asgari; C. Ireland; L. Patiny et al. 

Chemical Science. 2021. Vol. 12, num. 10, p. 3587 – 3598. DOI : 10.1039/d0sc05337f.

2020

Aom(2)S: A new web-based application for DNA/RNA tandem mass spectrometry data interpretation

D. Ortiz; N. Gasilova; F. Sepulveda; L. Patiny; P. J. Dyson et al. 

Rapid Communications In Mass Spectrometry. 2020. Vol. 34, num. 23, p. e8927. DOI : 10.1002/rcm.8927.

2019

A biosensor for measuring NAD(+) levels at the point of care

Q. Yu; N. Pourmandi; L. Xue; C. Gondrand; S. Fabritz et al. 

Nature Metabolism. 2019. Vol. 1, num. 12, p. 1219 – 1225. DOI : 10.1038/s42255-019-0151-7.

2017

Biochemical and biophysical characterization of ruthenation of BRCA1 RING protein by RAPTA complexes and its E3 ubiquitin ligase activity

P. Temboot; R. F. S. Lee; L. Menin; L. Patiny; P. J. Dyson et al. 

Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. 2017. Vol. 488, num. 2, p. 355 – 361. DOI : 10.1016/j.bbrc.2017.05.052.

Versatile Tool for the Analysis of Metal-Protein Interactions Reveals the Promiscuity of Metallodrug-Protein Interactions

R. F. S. Lee; L. Menin; L. Patiny; D. Ortiz; P. J. Dyson 

Analytical Chemistry. 2017. Vol. 89, num. 22, p. 11985 – 11989. DOI : 10.1021/acs.analchem.7b02211.

2016

Development of a systematic computer vision-based method to analyse and compare images of false identity documents for forensic intelligence purposes-Part I: Acquisition, calibration and validation issues

M. Auberson; S. Baechler; M. Zasso; T. Genessay; L. Patiny et al. 

Forensic Science International. 2016. Vol. 260, p. 74 – 84. DOI : 10.1016/j.forsciint.2016.01.016.

Open Source Drug Discovery: Highly Potent Antimalarial Compounds Derived from the Tres Cantos Arylpyrroles

A. E. Williamson; P. M. Ylioja; M. N. Robertson; Y. Antonova-Koch; V. Avery et al. 

ACS Central Science. 2016. Vol. 2, num. 10, p. 687 – 701. DOI : 10.1021/acscentsci.6b00086.

Ask Erno: a self-learning tool for assignment and prediction of nuclear magnetic resonance spectra

A. M. Castillo; A. Bernal; R. Dieden; L. Patiny; J. Wist 

Journal Of Cheminformatics. 2016. Vol. 8, p. 26. DOI : 10.1186/s13321-016-0134-6.

2015

PDB-Explorer: a web-based interactive map of the protein data bank in shape space

X. Jin; M. Awale; M. Zasso; D. Kostro; L. Patiny et al. 

Bmc Bioinformatics. 2015. Vol. 16, p. 339. DOI : 10.1186/s12859-015-0776-9.

Wikipedia Chemical Structure Explorer: substructure and similarity searching of molecules from Wikipedia

P. Ertl; L. Patiny; T. Sander; C. Rufener; M. Zasso 

Journal Of Cheminformatics. 2015. Vol. 7, p. 10. DOI : 10.1186/s13321-015-0061-y.