CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE CHEMICAL REGISTRY SYSTEM .1. GENERAL DESIGN
CHEMICAL ABSTRACTS SERVICE CHEMICAL REGISTRY SYSTEM .1. GENERAL DESIGN
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10.1021/ci60006a016
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发表时间:
1976-01-01
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WATSON, CE
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DITTMAR, PG;STOBAUGH, RE;WATSON, CE
Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) in its mission of covering the world’s primary chemical and chemical engineering lit-erature has long been heavily involved with handling of information about chemical substances. A particular problem has been the identification of reoccurrences of substances in scientific literature. Such identification is necessaryto assure consistency in the indexes to Chemical Abstracts. These indexes are based ona systematic chemical nomenclature, and the technique used for many years to assure consistency was to name each indexed substance every time it was cited and to file the name alphabetically in an index with its citations. This resulted in a large amount of redundant effort in repeated renamings. To remedy this situation, the CAS Chemical Registry System was developed in the early 1960’s. The main objective was the establishment of a computer-based system to identify chemical substances uniquely on the basis of molecular structure. It was also realized that the CAS Re-gistry Number would provide a machine address that would allow linking of files containing structural information, no-menclature, indexing, and bibliographic information. Moreover, this linking function was seen as a potential general purpose linkage based on substance identification that could eventually involve external files and data banks, primary literature, and other secondary services. The initial and experimental computer-based system, re-ferred to as Registry I, established the viability and validity of the registration concept forfully defined organic chemical substances. Registry I began operating late in 1964. In 1968, the scope of the system was increased as additional classes of substances were handled, and this system, referred to as Registry II, began to be integrated into the CAS indexing operation. The most recent version of the Registry System, Registry III, was placed in operation in 1974 and embodies major adjustments in the Registry records to make the system more effective in its support of the CAS index nomenclature function and the computer-based structureoutput operation through explicit identification of specific ring systems. As its use has been expanded, Registry has proved itself to be eminently reliable and consistent as a substance identification tool. It has become an essential CAS production tool sup-porting CA index input and final product compilation. The CAS Chemical Registry has also found widespread interest t Presented to the Division of Chemical Literature, 169th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Philadelphia, Pa., April 8, 1975.* To whom correspondence should be directed.