Mobius CIDB system

These issues alienated the chemistry community which then prompted the development of a second Beacon Project, Beacon forms. Since the existing Icaris system was built using the form-oriented ISIS/Base and the first Beacon project did not have forms and it failed for chemistry, the lesson was assumed to be that chemists must like and need a forms-based system. Thus another project was formed to create a java application that implemented an optimized forms-based environment. Unfortunately, the first production version was extremely slow, awkward to use, fragile, and was not able to access the full range of important data sources. Coincidentally, a stealth project was underway at the time to develop a proof-of-concept CIDBS for Lilly based on ChemLink that eventually became Mobius. 

Mobius presented a somewhat different situation than the Cousin/ChanLink scenario. With Cousin/ChemLink, there were no other CIDBs in existence—thus, users had NO prior experience or expectation, but with Mobius, several different systems had been in use prior to its introduction. In addition, Mobius employed a decidedly... 

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