Chemical Information

Chemical information as a commercial marketplace.- A policy for science and technical information in chemistry.- Molecular modelling in drug design.- Industrial drug design: realities and prospects.- Introducting and managing end-user systems.- Chemical information education.- An integrated information system for the bench chemist.- Obtaining chemical, environmental and chemical engineering information with NUMERICA.- Information and strategy in patenting.- Information needs for TSCA and FIFRA.- What's in a claim.- Patent information and documentation in Italy.- Patent searching ain't what it used to be.- Hypertrophic generic structures in patent claims: an extravagance and a remedy for it.- Patent statistics searching: practices and pitfalls.- Generic chemical structures in patents - an evaluation of the Sheffield University research work.- Design and production of a pharmaceutical patent database: a patent office experience.- Present and future EPO systems for automation of the search in Directorate General 1.- Chemical substructure searching on CD-ROMs.- Numerical databases for chemists: present and future.- Standard representations for chemical information.- Integrating standard DBMSs functionalities and structures handling capabilities: the DARC approach.- Bioactive natural products database: an aid for natural products identification.- Processing of chemical structure databases using parallel computer hardware.- The automated structure elucidation system - CHEMICS.- Easy mapping classification of patent references with microcomputers.- Author Index.