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New Files Enabled for Chemical Structure Searching

Since the launch of chemical structure searching in March 2005, Dialog has been making additional files "structure searchable." The newest collections to be added to Dialog's service include Index Chemicus and IMS Patent Focus.

Index Chemicus (File 302)

New on Dialog, Index Chemicus, a text- and substructure-searchable database, reports over 200,000 new compounds each year, with coverage of over one million structures published in the literature since 1991. Covering the world's leading organic chemistry journals, Index Chemicus offers full graphical summaries, important reaction diagrams, complete bibliographic information and author abstracts.

Key features of Index Chemicus include the following:

• Provides researchers with new and innovative organic chemistry, helping them keep up with the latest research, find new ideas for projects, and track other research groups' progress
  
  
• Delivers superior, more thorough search results via substructure searching
  
  
• Allows users to quickly view reaction schemes and find the results they need via full graphical summary displays

IMS Patent Focus (Files 447, 947)

IMS Patent Focus details drug names (brand names), therapeutic class codes, CAS® Registry Numbers by record, all linked to patent data, including estimated expiration date, priority details, originator, originating country and specific country comments. IMS Patent Focus now provides searchers access to compounds that are structure searchable.

Index Chemicus and IMS Patent Focus are the latest addition to the growing collection of chemical-structure-searching-enabled databases on Dialog. Titles already in the collection include:

• Beilstein Facts (File 390)
• Derwent Chemistry Resource (File 355)
• IMS R&D Focus (File 445, 955)
• Pharmaprojects (File 128, 928)
• Prous Drug Data Report (File 452)
• Prous Science Drugs of the Future (File 453)

Dialog offers the unique ability to run a chemical structure search in all enabled databases in a single pass. In DialogLink 5 BEGIN the OneSearch Chemical Structure Search category (BEGIN CHEMSTRC), or click the "Chemical Structure" Tab and select the database(s) to search.

About Chemical Structure Searching on Dialog

Dialog is the ideal starting point for your chemical structure searches. Not only can you conduct searches for nearly 12 million structures, including those found in drug pipeline files, but you can do it in a few easy steps at an unbeatable price.

Conduct chemical structure searches quickly and easily through the new and intuitive DialogLink 5 interface and:

• Use the chemical drawing package of your choice -- no need to redraw structures in a proprietary drawing package
  
  
• Easily identify your structure highlighted within search results
  
  
• Edit retrieved structures directly from DialogLink 5
  
  
• Conduct searches in drug pipeline and chemistry files
  
  
• Search multiple files simultaneously
  
  
• Save money with low-cost, flexible pricing options

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