Transcript The Beilstein CrossFire plus Reactions Story

Beilstein CrossFire plus
Reactions
Stephen Briggs
Beilstein Information Systems
Helen Schofield
UMIST and MIDAS
Paul Meehan
MIDAS
Beilstein’s Handbuch der
organischen Chemie
Beilstein’s Handbuch der
organischen Chemie
Commenced publication in 1881
Definitive source for organic chemistry
information
Properties of compounds
Methods of preparing compounds
1st edition covered about 15,000
compounds
Gmelin Handbuch der
anorganischen Chemie
Commenced publication in 1819
Covers inorganic and organometallic
compounds
Each volume covers a different element
Printed Beilstein and
Gmelin
The printed works fell out of use for the
following reasons:
Cost
German language
Other sources became easier to use
e.g. Chemical Abstracts
Information out of date
Beilstein CrossFire
First demonstrated in 1993, e.g. at the
Chemical Information Users Conference in
Manchester
Major pharmaceutical companies and
consortia of universities in the USA began
to subscribe
MIDAS
Manchester Information, Datasets and
Associated Services
Located at Manchester Computing,
University of Manchester
Beilstein Service is being provided by a
consortium of Manchester Computing,
Manchester University and UMIST
Beilstein CrossFire coverage
Organic compounds - names, structures
etc.
Properties, e.g. physical data,
spectroscopy
Methods of making organic compounds
Reactions of organic compounds
Physiological information
Gmelin through CrossFire coverage
Inorganic and organometallic compounds
Preparations
Properties
Geological, mineralogical and
metallurgical information
 e.g. occurrence, extraction from ores
CrossFire - coverage
Beilstein
Contains >7.5 million structures
Nearly 5 million searchable reactions, and
about 10 million reaction records
> 400 000 abstracts
Gmelin
Contains nearly 1 million compounds
Time period covered
Much further back than most
databases:
Beilstein - back to 1771
Gmelin - back to 1772
Chemical Abstracts Online: 1967
How to search
By
By
By
By
structure or sub-structure
numerical values of properties
text, e.g. bibliographic information
browsing indexes
Sub-structure searching
How to register
Connect to the MIDAS CrossFire web page
at http://midas.ac.uk/crossfire/
Complete the web self-registration
you will need an Access username and
password
choose your own password, the system will
give you a username