Beilstein CrossFire
I. Database Contents
- More than 6,000,000 compounds
- Structures (including stereochemistry)
- Numeric data
- Bibliographic information
II. Chronological coverage: 1830-
- Prior to 1960:
Complete information on > 1.1 million compounds
- 1960-79:
Selected data on about 3 million other compounds:
MP, BP, D, ORP, INP, CDER
All other physical property data accessible by
keyword search
- 1980-
All physical and chemical data
III. Current Facts CD-ROM
- updated quarterly
- appears five months after end of the quarter covered
IV. Search Possibilities
A. Factual Searches
- More than 350 searchable fields
- Numeric fields: Over 180 fields with over 70 topics
- Character string fields
- Chemical names
- Bibliographic data
- Keywords
B. Structure searches
C. Author searches: Maximum of 5 authors indexed
D. New data for 1980 onward: Physiological Behaviour
and Applications
E. Same data types as in Beilstein Current Facts
and same user interface
V. Search Techniques
A. Boolean operators
AND
OR
NOT
P -- present in the same record
-- Use for subfields, e.g., BP and BP.P
B. Set combinations
Specify set number as ".Q01" in the "Field Name" box
C. Truncation (Wild Cards)
Single character: ?
Any two characters: ??
Any no. of characters: *
Both left-hand and right-hand truncation allowed
VI. Client/Server system
Database on a server at the University of Wisconsin
for the consortium to which IU belongs
Client software for:
IBM PC with Winsock TCP/IP or Novell LAN Workplace
Macintosh (later in 1995)
All IP subnets in the Indiana University Chemistry Building are
programmed for access.
CCIIM: 33-17.495 GW