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Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) and SciFinder Scholar

SciFinder Scholar 2007 for Mac OS X, released in June 2007, was found to be incompatible with Apple Intel powered computers using Mac OS X Leopard (10.5), released in October 2007. A workaround is now available. This is a “quick fix” pending further development investigation, code change, and quality testing.

CAS recognizes the importance of the Mac platform to the scientific community and is actively investigating the reported problems. A change to memory initialization handling in Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) appears to be the cause of the problems reported. SciFinder developers are actively working on creating solutions.

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Google Sites is the easiest way to make information accessible to people who need quick, up-to-date access. People can work together on a Site to add file attachments, information from other Google applications (like Google Docs, Google Calendar, YouTube and Picasa), and new free-form content. Creating a site together is as easy as editing a document, and you always control who has access, whether it’s just yourself, your team, or your whole organization. You can even publish Sites to the world. The Google Sites web application is accessible from any internet connected computer.

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Covering the years 1974-2006, SPRESIweb 2.6 version developed by InfoChem is an integrated scientific database containing over 6.1 million molecules, 3.85 million reactions, and 28 million factual data entries that were extracted from 636,000 references, and 164,000 patents. For more details: SPRESIweb description (pdf).

Users can identify which substances contained in their hit lists are commercially available directly during the search and order them right away through the hyperlink to homepage/online catalogue of the particular supplier. This new feature allows also supplier specific structure searches. Results also include link to ACD’s I-Lab.

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Online Stuff at the Science Museum (UK)

The Science Museum was founded in 1857 with objects shown at the Great Exhibition held in the Crystal Palace. Today the Museum is world renowned for its historic collections, awe-inspiring galleries and inspirational exhibitions.

Household Products Database

This database links over 7,000 consumer brands to health effects from Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) provided by manufacturers and allows scientists and consumers to research products based on chemical ingredients.

Federal R&D Project Summaries

Descriptions, Awards, and Summaries of Federally Funded Research

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Reactome — A Curated Knowledgebase of Biological Pathways

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BlueObelisk.org

The Internet has brought together a group of chemists, programmers, and informaticians who are driven by wanting to do things better, but are frustrated with the Closed systems that chemists currently have to work with. They share a belief in the concepts of Open Source, Open Standards and Open Data (but not necessarily Open Access). And they express this in code, data, algorithms, specifications, tutorials, demonstrations, articles and anything that helps get the message across.

Chemical Information Sources Wiki

By Gary Wiggins

• Faculty of 1000 Biology
• Faculty of 1000 Medicine

Areas covered include:

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