Open AccessThe ChemFinder WebServer: Indexing Chemical Data on the Internet
Author(s) -
J. S. Brecher
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
chimia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.387
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2673-2424
pISSN - 0009-4293
DOI - 10.2533/chimia.1998.658
Subject(s) - search engine indexing , the internet , computer science , world wide web , chemical database , information retrieval , index (typography) , bioinformatics , biology
The Internet offers a wealth of data on all topics, but chemical information provides unique challenges for searching. General-purpose indexing techniques are summarized, with a discussion of why those techniques are unsuited for use with chemical data. The ChemFinder WebServer, a WWW-based chemical index, addresses some of the weaknesses in nonchemical search engines.