Communication is the universal solvent: atreya bot -- an interactive bot for chemical scientists

TL;DR

This paper introduces Atreya, an interactive Telegram bot designed to assist chemical scientists and students in querying the ChEMBL database for drug and target information, enhancing complex information retrieval.

Contribution

The paper presents a novel conversational agent, Atreya, tailored for chemistry research and education, demonstrating its utility in accessing chemical data via a user-friendly interface.

Findings

Atreya effectively retrieves drug and target data from ChEMBL.

The bot enhances user experience in complex chemical information seeking.

Atreya demonstrates potential for educational and research applications.

Abstract

Conversational agents are a recent trend in human-computer interaction, deployed in multidisciplinary applications to assist the users. In this paper, we introduce "Atreya", an interactive bot for chemistry enthusiasts, researchers, and students to study the ChEMBL database. Atreya is hosted by Telegram, a popular cloud-based instant messaging application. This user-friendly bot queries the ChEMBL database, retrieves the drug details for a particular disease, targets associated with that drug, etc. This paper explores the potential of using a conversational agent to assist chemistry students and chemical scientist in complex information seeking process.