What is the DOI project?

The DOI databases is about building a unified, open, and semantically labeled chemicals and substances database. It aims to establish a firm link between physical, analytical, and biochemistry with industrial information and its inter-lingual nomenclature. All entry indexes must to be fully searchable by not just name, but its properties as well, and most importantly, be organised into bite-sized, digestable categories.

We are aiming to connect and provide cross-disciplinary knowledge and value for academia, industry and research fields - furthering scientific unity, clarity, and advancing material sciences, drug development and chemicals research for everyone around the world.




Who runs/hosts the project?

The DOI project is run by the Innovilage Foundation (INVL), a non-profit arm of Innovilage FZE, a small research and software development firm based in Dubai, UAE. Our team consists of members from the pharmaceutical, healthcare, energy, civil engineering, and other high-tech industries. Currently, the database project website is hosted by Hivelocity, Inc. located in New York City.

As an community-sponsored data platform, we welcome everyone to download and host copies of the DOI databases (with labeled version numbers) on their own infrastructure and help make the data more open and accessible to all.




Who leads the project?

As the project is in its early stages, it is currently run by the staff members of Innovilage company. A committee board however, is currently being assembled that will lead this project independently in the near future. There will also be several individual working groups for each database when involving more professional/niche knowledge. If you would like to apply for the board OR for the future working groups, please click the link here for the application forms.




How can I join or contribute?

We are in very early stages of data development and need of everyone around the world to prepare, organise and submit said information. The data will be fully, open, searchable, and most importantly, downloadable in all common formats such as Microsoft© Excel, XML, JSON, and CSV. All contributing authors will be credited appropriately. During the data preparation and collection phases, only the submissions in CSV will be published, as the database is still under development.

In the future we also plan on developing open API services, hence, we welcome all MySQL database specialists and engineers, PHP, Python, Rust developers to join our us and make chemicals data more accessible to all. We are also looking for computational, analytical and quantum chemical engineers to work with us to assist with simulation, prediction, spectroscopy, and calculations as well as ensuring data accuracy and/or fidelity. Please contact us if you are interested using the email address here: .