SciFinder® Enhancements Include Chemical Experimental Procedures to Expedite Scientific Research

COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 13, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), the world's leading provider of chemical information, today announced new time-saving advancements and usability improvements to SciFinder, its premier research and discovery tool. The enhancements will accelerate researchers' workflow and are especially valuable for synthetic chemists and other researchers who are engaged in lab preparations and synthesis planning.

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In addition to presenting cleaner, more streamlined layouts, CAS chemists incorporated new features that enable researchers to

• View experimental procedures in context with a reaction. Access experimental procedures from six American Chemical Society journals and patents from USPTO, EPO, and WIPO patents -- all released between 2005 and 2009. Examine, sort, and analyze experimental procedures for applicability to synthetic research needs.

• Search structures using SMILES and InChI strings. Enter SMILES (Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification) or InChI (International Chemical Identifier) text strings into SciFinder's drawing editor to conveniently generate structures.

• Rank reactions by relevance. Bring the most relevant reactions to the top of your answer set, improving retrieval quality and speed.

"SciFinder has the most thorough, accurate, and largest combined collection of patent and journal reaction procedures available in the world," said Christine McCue, vice president of marketing, CAS. "This is part of our ongoing commitment to leadership in publicly disclosed chemical information."

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About SciFinder

SciFinder® is the first choice of scientists conducting research in chemistry and related fields. It has been developed by CAS, an organization with more than 100 years of experience in chemical indexing and curation. CAS scientists and colleagues around the world curate, quality-control, and optimize chemical information for intuitive retrieval. Globally, top Fortune 500 corporations, more than 1,700 universities, and major government agencies depend on SciFinder for the comprehensive, current, reliable information they need to enable scientific discovery. The award-winning application offers access to the CAS REGISTRY(SM) database, known as the gold standard of chemical substance collections. In addition, SciFinder retrieves more references than any other scientific search service, including relevant patent documents, journal article information, and reliable web sources. Finally, SciFinder is secure; its confidential research results are guaranteed and protected by CAS security systems.

About CAS

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, is the world's authority for chemical information. Our databases are curated and quality-controlled by CAS scientists, and recognized by chemical and pharmaceutical companies, universities, government organizations, and patent offices around the world as authoritative. By combining these databases with advanced search and analysis technologies (SciFinder®, STN®, and Science IP® products and services), CAS delivers the most current, complete, and cross-linked secure digital information environment for scientific discovery. Learn more at www.cas.org.

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