  An end-to-end platform for chemical science research has been developed that
integrates data from computational and experimental approaches through a modern
web-based interface. The platform offers a highly interactive visualization and
analytics environment that functions well on mobile, laptop and desktop
devices. It offers pragmatic solutions to ensure that large and complex data
sets are more accessible. Existing desktop applications/frameworks were
extended to integrate with high-performance computing (HPC) resources, and
offer command-line tools to automate interaction---connecting distributed teams
to this software platform on their own terms. The platform was developed
openly, and all source code hosted on the GitHub platform with automated
deployment possible using Ansible coupled with standard Ubuntu-based machine
images deployed to cloud machines.
  The platform is designed to enable teams to reap the benefits of the
connected web---going beyond what conventional search and analytics platforms
offer in this area. It also has the goal of offering federated instances, that
can be customized to the sites/research performed. Data gets stored using JSON,
extending upon previous approaches using XML, building structures that support
computational chemistry calculations. These structures were developed to make
it easy to process data across different languages, and send data to a
JavaScript web client.
