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PubChem peace in sight.(Brief article)
Byline: BobbY Pickering
PubChem peace in sight
Peace appears to have broken out between the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Chemical Society (ACS) over the freely available PubChem molecular database that NIH has created.
The ACS put pressure on Congress last month to review its funding of NIH, arguing that PubChem is "a mini-replica of the CAS Registry", published by ACS subsidiary, Chemical Abstracts Service.
It added: "That replica will, over time, pose an insurmountable threat to CAS' survival for the very reason that it is a taxpayer-supported resource."
When announcing its yearly funding, the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives released a statement "urging the NIH to work with private sector providers to avoid unnecessary duplication and competition with [their] chemical databases."
Michael Dennis, VP of planning and development at CAS, told IWR that ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, PubChem peace in sight.(Brief article)