Progress Toward a Chemical Registry System at Chemical Abstracts Service

摘要

Chemical Abstracts Service has developed and expanded a computer-based Chemical Registry System and operated it on a large-scale pilot basis. Some 1,744,319 registry transactions were made, resulting in the addition of 988,806 unique substances to the Registry Files. Together with registrations from other sources, this brought the total Registry File to 1,079,551 unique substances. Following the initial development of the Registry System, continual effort has been made to improve computer capabilities and procedures, add new types of compounds, and improve user services and programs. In addition to registration, this includes (1) the testing of alternative input methods for chemical information, including the development of special keyboards and keyboarding conventions that reduce the effort required to generate data in machine language for input to the computer; (2) the installation of several operational adjustments in the System that increase overall efficiency and broaden the range of compounds that are machine registered; and (3) the development of computer support systems that increase the productive efficiency of the chemical and clerical staff of the Chemical Registry System. (Author)