Databases of chemical and biological

Petabyte. One thousand terabytes of data (10 bytes). At present, the largest databases of chemical and biological information are gigabytes (10 bytes) in size. 

Table 1.2 Representative databases of chemical and biological information relevant for drug discove. ... 

Web-based chemistry is a reality. With MDL s Chemscape Server and Chime Pro family of products, scientists can read interactive chemistry documents, perform chemical database searches, and reach out to the wealth of chemical and biological information available on the Web. First introduced in 1997, the Chemscape and Chime Pro solutions have become industry standards for communicating chemical information on the Web and for accessing, searching, and visualizing "live" chemical structures within Web environments. 

Deininger, R.A. (2000). The threat of chemical and biological agents to public water supply systems. Water Pipeline Database, TSWG Task T-1211, SAIC Contract N 39998-00, 32 p. 

This database is a list of everything that the military medical system thinks it will need to care for chemical and biological casualties. It was produced by the Joint Readiness Clinical Advisory Board (JRCAB). COL Cornelius Maher, commander, based upon the recommendations of the chemical and biological panels of 1999 and 2001. The chemical panels included members of the US Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense staff. The biological panels included members of the staff at the US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. 

The value of the BioPrint dataset is achieved from a combination of high quality in vitro data generated for each compound, and in vivo data extracted from public medical literature (see below). Relating both types of information supports the bioinformatics applications of the database. Also of value is the diversity of compounds, both chemical and biological, which are indicated for a large array of therapeutic areas. This diversity provides a good training set to develop and test various QSAR methods, and supports the cheminformatics applications of the database (Fig. 1). 

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