ChemTalk

Stanley V. Kasparek, Computer Graphics and Chemical Structures Database Management Systems, CAS Registry, Chembase, REACCS, MACCS-II, Chemtalk, Wiley, New York, 1990. 

The IBM Personal Computer (PC) is becoming the chemical industry standard for workstation computers. To remain current with the move to workstation automation, and to continue to provide the chemical industry with structure-integrated programs. Molecular Design Limited has developed the Chemist s Personal Software Series. This family of professional software products is designed to assist individual chemists in their daily work and to increase their efficiency. The series consists of four programs ChemBase, ChemText, ChemTalk and ChemHost. 

ChemTalk terminal emulation to run Molecular Design Limited s reaction indexing software REACCS on a mini/mainframe computer for access to centralized structure-based synthetic information ... 

Figure 8. FCD Find Current Search Result in ChemTalk...

Information from a publication in the Journal of Medicinal Chemistry has been used to illustrate some potential applications of the Chemist s Personal Software Series, ranging from chemical database management to mini/mainframe database access to report generation. ChemBase, ChemTalk, ChemHost and ChemText work together to provide a complete workstation information management system. 

Personal Computers. IBM PC s (personal computers) and clones with the MS-DOS operating system have become a popular microcomputing environment for the chemical/pharmaceutical industry. Many software products are available for this system including MDL s ChemText chemical word processor, ChemBase chemical database, and ChemTalk terminal program, ORACLE S RDBMS, and BBN s RS/1 statistics program. 

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