Date: Mon, 05 Dec 94 08:42:39 cst
From: BLPARN at ccmail dot monsanto dot com
Message-Id: <9411057866 dot AA786645410 at ccmail dot monsanto dot com>
To: napronet at bilkent dot edu dot tr
Subject: Commercial Structure Data Bases
One of the Napronet subscribers wrote:
I am currently using a software program called ISIS, which
permits comparison of chemical structures. I was hoping to find an
inexpensive source for a listing of chemicals similar to the Merck Index,
in the form of software or CD-ROM.
Although ISIS allows me to draw and create my own database, it is
time consuming and I was looking for a short cut.
There are several databases with structures of commercially available compounds
(many from Aldrich and Apin Chemicals (England)). MDL (Molecular Design Ltd,
San Leandro, CA, USA) puts out such a data base. There is certainly an
interface for ISIS. Merck Index will go CD-ROM in 4th quarter '95 so they tell
me.
Barry Parnas
blparn at ccmail dot monsanto dot com