SOME PROBLEMS OF CHEMICAL REACTIONS RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS

Abstract

The paper briefly discusses some organisational questions of distribution of chemical information over the computer network, emphasizing various tools available for chemical sciences, mainly: chemical reaction retriev all systems, systems for computer-assisted molecular modelling, then for computational chemistry, biocomputing, and information about human genes. From the above mentioned problems. The chemical reaction retrieval systems, like ORAC, REACCS. and SYNLIB are covered in details. Additionally, the latest philosophy of searching reaction databases, represented by family of tools from InfoChem GmbH (ChemReact41, CD-ROM — with over 2.5 mln of reactions — and STS), are critically reviewed.