Re: References for chemical structure searching (for Norman Schmff)

Todd F. Mayson (infotree@ccinet.ab.ca)
Fri, 25 Jul 1997 09:49:40 -0600

A very good book, highly recommend. See TOC for description of structure
searching in Part 2

Online searching: A scientist's perspective
A guide for the chemical and life sciences (344 pgs)
Damon D. Ridley (University of Sydney, Australia)
John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 0 471 96520 0 (cloth)
ISBN 0471 96521 9 (paperback)

Table Of Contents

Part 1 Focus on keywords

C1 Online searching
C2 Basic Commands and Tools
C3 Biblio DB's: Structure & contect
C4 Biblio DB's: non-index fields
C5 Biblio DBs index fields
C6 Biblio DB's: search outline
C7 Biblio DB's: search terms
C8 Full text files
C9 Patent information
C10 Special topics

Part 2 Focus on Substances

C11 Chemical Substances: structure & indexing
C12 Finding Substances: name based terms
C13 Finding Substances: formula based terms
C14 How structure searching works
C15 Searching by Structure
C16 Substance based files with property information
C17 Searching for chemical reactions

Regards,

Todd F. Mayson

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