*Chemistry: Web Resources

This tutorial will describe the criteria that you should use when deciding whether you have the right information for your research needs.

This tutorial demonstrates how to search Google Scholar.

The Analytical Sciences Digital Library, ASDL, is an NSF-funded digital library, accessed at www.asdlib.org, that collects, catalogs, links and publishes peer reviewed web-based discovery materials pertinent to innovations in curricular development and supporting technical resources in the analytical sciences.

CASSI identifies journal titles and abbreviations for publications indexed by the Chemical Abstracts Service since 1907 and appear in SciFinder. Includes serial and non-serial scientfic and technical publications.

ChEMBL is a database of bioactive drug-like small molecules, it contains 2-D structures, calculated properties (e.g. logP, Molecular Weight, Lipinski Parameters, etc.) and abstracted bioactivities (e.g. binding constants, pharmacology and ADMET data). The data is abstracted and curated from the primary scientific literature, and cover a significant fraction of the SAR and discovery of modern drugs.

Chemical Entities of Biological Interest (ChEBI) is a freely available dictionary of ‘small molecular entities’. The term ‘molecular entity’ encompasses any constitutionally or isotopically distinct atom, molecule, ion, ion pair, radical, radical ion, complex, conformer, etc., identifiable as a separately distinguishable entity.

A chemical structure database providing text and structure search access to millions of compounds from numerous data sources. Sponsored by the Royal Society of Chemistry.

National Institute of Standards and Technology's Scientific and Technical Databases is a website with a numerous searchable databases. Covering areas such as analytical chemistry, atomic and molecular physics, biotechnology, chemical and crystal structure and general chemistry, these databases are searchable individually and many are searchable across multiple databases.

Property tables for 1800 inorganic and organic (C1 and C2) substances and ions, in SI units. Covers temperature-dependent properties over a temp range of 0-6000K. Includes references to source literature.

Organic Syntheses provides annual collections of detailed, reliable, and carefully checked procedures for the synthesis of organic compounds. Some procedures describe practical methods for the preparation of specific compounds of interest, while other procedures illustrate important synthetic methods with general utility. Plug-in file required for structure searching.

PubChem contains the chemical structures of small organic molecules and information on their biological activities. Search for compounds and bioassay information by description, name, or keywords or by structure search.

RCSB PDB (RCSB.org) is the US data center for the global Protein Data Bank (PDB) archive of 3D structure data for large biological molecules (proteins, DNA, and RNA) essential for research and education in fundamental biology, health, energy, and biotechnology. The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established as the 1st open access digital data resource in all of biology and medicine (Historical Timeline). It is today a leading global resource for experimental data central to scientific discovery.

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