Word processing process integration

Chemists talk to each other by drawing pictures, and when nearly two decades ago software became readily available that allowed this to be done electronically, the office environment for chemists changed in a remarkable manner. Well established commercial office packages allow even the most complicated chemical structures to be drawn easily and incorporated into word processing software to use electronic notebooks (see Section B, 3.3.2.6) access databases both external and internally on CD-ROMs integrate into a LIMS use a registration system carry out molecular modelling and determine structure activity relationships [B-ll]. 

Integrating ERMS with automated laboratory information systems and clinical and nonclinical trials databases is a critical issue. Records and documents can come from laboratory devices as well as word processing, spreadsheet, database, e-mail, and web-based applications. An ERMS must integrate all of these functions into a cohesive workflow that prevents unauthorized access and logs all activity in an FDA compliant audit trail. 

Definition of file types that can be uploaded or created, for instance, integrated templates for a word processing application. 

Integrate software using OLE including access to all formats provided by the sonrce application (e.g.. Molecule [MOL] files from ISIS/Draw, Rich Text Format (RTF) files from word processing applications, Comma Separated Valne (CSV) formats from worksheet applications). 

Information sharing will be facilitated with appropriate security to cover a wide range of functions. These include shared database access, multiple database integration, electronic filing systems, electronic mail, and fully editable document transfer between different word processing packages. 

Other software that has been recently integrated into SOCRATES includes FLATLAND, a package designed to incorporate chemical structures and schemes into word processing systems, and 3D-SEARCH, which extends our searching capability into databases with 3-D structure coordinates (e.g., the Cambridge Crystal Structure... 

Figure 8. A screen dump from Microsoft Word on the Apple Macintosh, illustrating the integration of output from a chemical database apphcation, as a graphical table, with a word processing application. The table was moved into Word via the cHpboard (cut and paste)...

Digital computers consist of hardware and software components that use binary code for data and word processing. The microprocessor, an integrated circuit chip that performs all the operations and computations, is at the heart of a rrucrocomputer, which also includes various forms of memory for program and data storage, and rnput/output devices. 

Curiously, the adoption of MIME in its electronic mail context as a tool by the computational chemistry community was initially quite slow. Its use came to the fore from 1994, when it became an integral part of the submission procedure-for the then new genre of electronic chemistry conferences (see Section 6). However, here the chemical content was often contained within word-processed documents, and extracting, e.g., a molecular structure from such documents remains difficult. Clearly, a more explicit mechanism for directly identifying chemical information was required. 

The way to take advantage of an in-depth knowledge of processes is to review complete products or subassemblies and consider how individual parts should be defined within them. In other words, process selection should ideally be integrated into a product s concept development phase so that maximum manufacturing flexibihty is preserved from the outset. Components can thus be defined within the product-as-a-system framework to uncover unique benefits that may be associated with a particular process (2). 

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