The Chemistry Abstracts Service announced that on September XNUMXth, the fifty millionth substance was registered in the CAS REGISTRY database, the most comprehensive and high-quality global repository of chemical information open to the general public. The substance is intended for pain relief
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS, Wikipedia), which is a department of the American Chemical Society, and is responsible for publishing abstracts on chemistry and related products, announced that on September 1990th, the fifty millionth substance was registered in the CAS REGISTRY database, the most comprehensive and high-quality global database of chemical information open to the general public. The last listed substance is a heterocyclic compound with analgesic properties. Achieving this number so quickly is a reliable measure of the ever-increasing pace of the accumulation of scientific knowledge today. The service registered the XNUMX millionth material only nine months ago. In comparison, it took thirty-three years for the service to register the ten millionth substance in XNUMX.
Information professionals and scientists around the world took note of this important milestone. "The rapid expansion of the database reflects the breadth and depth of creativity in research laboratories around the world," noted Grace Baysinger, head librarian at the Library of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Stanford University. "The CAS REGISTRY database is an indispensable tool for those engaged in research, teaching and industry."
"This milestone, of fifty million registered small frogs, provided us with two main insights: one, that a new substance was isolated or synthesized every two and a half seconds, on average, during the last year in the world, a fact that indicates the incredible pace of progress in science," notes One of the scientists working in the field. "The second insight is that the Chemistry Abstracts Service (CAS) maintains its professional reputation as the world's most extensive collection of material information and upon which every scientist in the world relies, either directly or indirectly."
The CAS REGISTRY database is the only integrated repository of chemical information originating from a wide variety of journal and patent literature, as well as commercial sources and the Internet that undergoes quality control by a worldwide team of scientists. The database provides not only the chemical names of the substances, which are important for every chemist (CAS Registry Number®), and essential literature references, but also other important information such as: the experimental and predicted properties of the substance (for example, the boiling and melting points), commercial availability, Preparation details, spectral data and standardization data from international sources.
The fifty millionth material (CAS registration number: 1181081-51-5) was provided by the service scientists from the demonstration section of a patent, which contains about two hundred pages, and was published by the World Intellectual Property Organization, WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization) on the thirteenth August 2009.
According to the authors of the patent, "few drugs are approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other competent authorities for the treatment of nerve pain." In order to solve this problem, a series of modern heterocyclic compounds (from the arylmethylidene family) were prepared, and they contained the last listed substance.
"The fifty million material has the ability to bring new discoveries in every field of scientific research, from cancer research to the development of new consumer products, the preparation of more effective medicines, or the development of smaller and faster computer processors," explains one of the organization's chief editors. "New scientific discoveries build upon previous discoveries, and it is the levels of quality and scope of the database that advance chemical innovation today."
The CAS REGISTRY database is available to scientists through the award-winning SciFinder® commercial product, and its family of STN® products. Thanks to these advanced search and data analysis tools, the service helps scientists find reliable information that is essential to their research.
The Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), which is a department of the American Chemical Society, provides the world's most up-to-date and extensive collection of scientific information in the fields of chemistry and other natural sciences, including the most reliable database of chemical substances - CAS REGISTRYSM. The service combines these databases with advanced information search and analysis means to provide the most comprehensive, tested and reliable digital databases for research and development scientists, including information products such as SciFinder, STN, STN Express® and STN® AnaVistTM.
2 תגובות
As someone whose only exposure to chemistry was indirectly or in his sleep at an unlucky time for the subject in my high school system can you tell me exactly what this database's definition of a chemical is
The atoms in polymers are connected by electrical bonds in a continuous manner which allows to create almost infinite materials I guess if we put gravity aside....
Which raises the question that interests (me) how many types of chemical substances are there in the natural world (and not artificial, man-made)? Finite or infinite number?