“Chem­i­cal Abstracts Ser­vice (CAS), a divi­sion of the Amer­i­can Chem­i­cal Soci­ety, has announced that it is on track to reg­is­ter the 50 mil­lionth unique chem­i­cal sub­stance on Sep­tem­ber 7. The CAS REGISTRY claims to be the most com­pre­hen­sive and high-quality com­pendium of pub­licly dis­closed chem­i­cal infor­ma­tion. This mile­stone comes only 9 months after CAS reg­is­tered its 40 mil­lionth substance.

REGISTRY is the only inte­grated com­pre­hen­sive source of chem­i­cal infor­ma­tion from a full range of patent and jour­nal lit­er­a­ture that is curated and qual­ity con­trolled by sci­en­tists work­ing around the world. For more than 100 years, CAS sci­en­tists and col­leagues in sev­eral nations have metic­u­lously analysed and indexed pub­licly dis­closed global sci­en­tific infor­ma­tion to build up the unique REGISTRY resource that pro­vides not only chem­i­cal names, the unique CAS Reg­istry Num­ber, and vital lit­er­a­ture ref­er­ences but also ancil­lary infor­ma­tion such as exper­i­men­tal and pre­dicted prop­erty data (boil­ing and melt­ing points, etc.), com­mer­cial avail­abil­ity, prepa­ra­tion details, spec­tra, and reg­u­la­tory infor­ma­tion from inter­na­tional sources.

CAS sci­en­tists fol­low rig­or­ous cri­te­ria that main­tain high qual­ity and reli­a­bil­ity of infor­ma­tion in its REGISTRY. Sci­en­tists iden­tify rep­utable sources and use con­sis­tent analy­sis before reg­is­ter­ing a sub­stance. REGISTRY is avail­able to sci­en­tists through CAS’ prod­uct, SciFinder, and its STN fam­ily of prod­ucts. With these advanced search and analy­sis tech­nolo­gies, CAS helps sci­en­tists find reli­able infor­ma­tion that is vital to their research process.”
 

Source: Knowl­edge­s­peak Newslet­ter, 8/18/09