RSS information feeds

Nowadays web information is often delivered by means other than the simple (static) web browser. RSS feeds (a new format for notifying new content at a web site), which stands for really simple syndication, and is a new way of getting news in general, has recently been introduced for the American Chemical Society (http //www.acs.org) journals (see http //pubs.acs.org/alerts/rss/index.html). The information is not fed directly into a browser, but into a news aggregator such as FeedDemon (http //www.feeddemon.com). 

ChemSpider currently searches over 14 million compounds in multiple chemical structure databases. These include databases of curated literature data, chemical vendor catalogs, molecular properties, environmental data, toxicity data, analytical data, and so on. ChemSpider intends to aggregate into a single database all chemical structures available within open access and commercial databases and to provide the necessary pointers from the ChemSpider search engine to the information of interest. This service will allow users to either access the data immediately via open-access links or have the information necessary to continue their searches into commercially available systems. 

CHAPTER 13 Web Alert Using the Internet for Medicinal Chemistry 

Two blogs support the system, one for the science, pohtics and vision behind ChemSpider (http //www.chem-spider.com/blog) and another for incremental changes in functionality at http //www.chemspider.com/news. 

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Web in the life of the medicinal chemist. One may see the development of alerting services for the primary medicinal chemistry journals. The Web-based information search process could be replaced by a much more structured one based on metadata, derived by automated processing of the original full-text article. To discover new and potentially interesting articles, the user subscribes to the RSS feeds of relevant publishers and can simply search the latest items that appear automatically for keywords of interest. The article download is still necessary, but it may be possible for the client software to automatically invoke bibliographic tools to store the found references. Another application of the Chemical Semantic Web may be as alerting services for new additions to chemical databases where users get alerts for the new additions of structures or reactions. 

It will be useful here to show how the RDF of the RSS feeds are serialized as XML. This pulls together web feeds, metadata for publishing and chemistry, and human- and machine-readable information. Some knowledge of XML will be needed to understand what follows. 

The enhanced RSS feeds, described above in the section about serialization, are a unique innovation and go beyond the bibliographic information and graphical abstracts that are now standard. They are also open to all readers, so anyone, subscriber or not, can put the RSC feeds straight into a database and get a very good idea of the compounds within a newly published article and, to some extent, their biological activity. 

Biotechnology Information Directory. Cato Research. URL http //www.cato.com/biotech/. Information sources, publications, products, services, software, companies, clinical trials, regulatory affairs, education, employment, RSS feed. 

Dr. Dobb s Journal was a journal of choice for many development managers, but it stopped publishing as a standalone monthly magazine in 2009 and became Dr. Dobb s Report in Information Week. However, via the Dr. Dobb s Web site, https //store.ddj.com/storefront. php (accessed April 1, 2011), you can purchase a DVD of all the past issues of Dr. Dobb s Journal, C/C++ User Journal, Perl Journal, Dr. Dobb s Sourcebook, and source code. The Dr. Dobb s Web site is a valuable resource for keeping up to date on the latest developments with articles under broad heading and offers RSS feeds. 

National Technical Information Service (NTIS) http //www.ntis.gov/ (accessed August 2, 2010). Subscribe to RSS feeds on Computers. An annual subscription to the printed version is available and averages about 80 summaries per issue. Also subscribe to the NTIS... 

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