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| September 05, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Incisive Media, published with the permission of Incisive Media. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: mark chillingworth

SciFinder browses for similarity

CAS database overhaul introduces new search tools, writes Mark Chillingworth

CAS, the scientific, technical and medical (STM) database arm of the American Chemical Society, has launched a major overhaul of its SciFinder service. Four new tools for searching the database have been introduced, including the ability to browse similar chemical substances.

The highlight of the SciFinder upgrade is a new Similarity Searching tool, which uses the Tanimoto algorithm to find similar chemical substances to those that an end user is searching for. Similarity Searching crawls the entire CAS Registry database of 26 million organic and inorganic substances and adds these to results sets.

CAS claims Similarity Searching will "foster new ideas in drug discovery" as it provides the random ...

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