Wipke, Todd

WORD PROCESSORS DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING W. TODD WIPKE... 

W. Todd Wipke and W. Jeffrey Howe, Computer Assisted Organic Synthesis, in ACS Symposium Series 61, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1977. 

We had to thank Todd Wipke, Steve Heller, Richard Feldmann and Ernie Hyde for their wisdom and foresight in organising the 1973 conference at such a timely juncture, and with such valuable results - not least through publication of the papers given at it in the form of the proceedings which have become a working source for everyone in the field since then. That conference and its record provide me with a baseline in time, to review what has developed in the intervening time, so that we can also look forward to see what is in prospect. 

This summary of Todd Wipke s paper has been prepared by the Editor from tape recordings and notes made at the Conference. 

By Stephen A. Godleski, Paul v R. Schleyer, Eiji Osawa and W. Todd Wipke... 

Only two papers given at the conference have failed to appear in these proceedings Steve Boyer s description of IBM s Optical Character Recognition of Chemical Graphics, delayed for publication for patent reasons, and Todd Wipke s... 

In the arena of chemical structure management, MDL (then in Hayward, California) was dominant. This company, which was founded in 1978 by Prof. Todd Wipke and others, marketed a program called MACCS for management of databases of compounds synthesized at or acquired by pharmaceutical companies. The software stored chemical structures (in two-dimensional representation) and allowed substructure searching and later similarity searching. 

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