Web Alert Using the Internet for Medicinal Chemistry

BIOLOGICAL PROPERTIES X. CHEMICAL SYNTHESIS A. Japanese patents 

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That s what we re doing. 

The internet has undergone further substantial change since the 2nd edition of Practice of Medicinal Chemistry, both in the continued growth in the internet, and the availability of additional resources. This article can only describe the situation as it currently stands and give some predictions as to the future. It is in the nature of such reviews that they can never be complete and up-to-date, moreover they deteriorate rapidly with time. Further more, the resources on the internet are now too vast for a comprehensive article in the space available a view has had to be takai to include only what can be considered to be the most significant and likely to last. 

This review is intended to provide freely available resources for the tools that medicinal chemists use generally 

While there has been a substantial inCTease in the number of commercial sites for chemistry since the last edition, there has not been the predicted shift in balance away from freely available resources. If anything there has been a surge in open resources, most notably in the open-access publishing movement (see later). There has also been the advent of certain forms of internet use which were not evident, or very substantially smaller in impact and not predicted to grow in the way they have done over the last 4 years. These include the introduction of the blog and the rise and rise of the wiki. 

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CHAPTER 13 Web Alert Using the Internet for Medicinal Chemistry... 

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