Commentary: Augmented Reality Scientific Phone Apps –making the APD AR Holistic Review app and using existing AR apps for scientific publications

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© APD SKEG Pte Ltd 1 www.scientificphoneapps.com/ Commentary: Augmented Reality Scientific Phone Apps – making the APD AR Holistic Review app and using existing AR apps for scientific publications Jun-Jie Poh1,3, Ser-Xian Phua1, Kwok-Fong Chan1, Samuel Ken-En Gan1,2,3,# 1 Bioinformatics Institute, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 138671 2 p53 Laboratory, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore 3 APD SKEG Pte Ltd, Singapore 529757 #To whom all correspondence should be addressed to: samuelg@bii.a-star.edu.sg Received 26 September 2018, Published: 2 October 2018. DOI: 10.30943/2018/28092018 INTRODUCTION The average scientific publication is not the most palatable of reading materials, especially to those not in the relevant disciplines. Yet, conveying scientific concepts easily is precisely what scientific publications are meant to do. Imagine what the use of video pictures/paintings as depicted in the Harry Potter movie series can do to make things easier!