Exploration Tools for Drug Discovery and Beyond: Applying SciFinder® to Interdisciplinary Research

摘要

Chemists have long recognized the value of online databases for surveying the literature of their field.nChemical Abstracts Service (CAS) databases covering almost a century’s worth of journal articles and patent documentsnare among the best known and widely used for searching information on compounds. Today’s research presents a newnchallenge, however, as the boundaries of chemistry and biological sciences overlap increasingly. This trend is especiallyntrue in the drug discovery field where published findings relating to both chemical and biological entities and theirninteractions are examined. CAS has expanded its resources to meet the requirements of the new, interdisciplinarynchallenges faced by today’s researchers. This is evident both in the content of CAS databases, which have been expandednto include more biology-related information, and in the technology of the search tools now available to researchers onntheir desktop. It is the integration of content and search-and-retrieval technology that enables new insights to be made innthe vast body of accumulated information. CAS’s SciFinderÒ is a widely used research tool for this purpose.