Comments on: PubChem, and Competition http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2005/06/06/pubchem-and-competition/ Fri, 11 Jun 2010 09:41:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Bradley http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2005/06/06/pubchem-and-competition/comment-page-1/#comment-11171 David Bradley Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:56:45 +0000 #comment-11171 There's yet another chemical structure search engine on the scene now. <a href="http://www.chemspider.com/" rel="nofollow">ChemSpider Chemical Searching</a> is different though. It is essentially a meta search engine that pools all the various academic, commercial and free-for-all structure databases on the web and allows you to search across all of them using chemical names, Smiles strings, and InChI's all from a single box. PubChem ChEBI and others are searchable allowing you to discover what molecules are online. Even if at the end of the search you have to pay for access to a non-OA database at least you will know the structure exists and can exclude or include it in your follow-up work David Bradley Sciencebase.com There’s yet another chemical structure search engine on the scene now. ChemSpider Chemical Searching is different though. It is essentially a meta search engine that pools all the various academic, commercial and free-for-all structure databases on the web and allows you to search across all of them using chemical names, Smiles strings, and InChI’s all from a single box. PubChem ChEBI and others are searchable allowing you to discover what molecules are online. Even if at the end of the search you have to pay for access to a non-OA database at least you will know the structure exists and can exclude or include it in your follow-up work

David Bradley
Sciencebase.com

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