How to add chemical abstracts service registry numbers and structures to databases via chemical names comparison
For the conversion of nonstructural chemical databases to structure databases, a series of algorithms to find the closest match between existing names to names in a reference database are described. On the basis of the best match, new fields such as the Chemical Abstracts Service Registry Number (CASRN) or structures were added to the database.
Krebs
HA
Institute of Organic Chemistry, Vienna University of Technology, Austria. hkrebs@mail.zserv.tuwien.ac.at
Jordis
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