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| The Chemistry Department at the University of Pennsylvania requires all PhD students to complete a course in chemical information during the first year of study. The twelve-week course, taught by the Chemistry Librarian, has the students divided into sections based on their subject interest (organic, inorganic, biological, or physical). The organic section focuses on resources that support synthetic organic chemistry and techniques of locating substances and reactions in the literature. It relies heavily on substructure searching in many of the databases; and three to five lectures are devoted to this topic. The students are taught to analyze molecules, create generic substructures, adapt them to be more or less specific, and apply these theoretical skills to each resource studied. The duration of the course gives students time to learn advanced substructure skills, including the use of complex generic groups, repeating units, reaction mapping, and the combination of substructure search sets. |
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On Beyond Keyword Searching: Advanced Instruction in Chemical Information
8:25 AM-12:10 PM, Wednesday, March 28, 2007 McCormick Place North -- Room N135, Level 1, Oral
Division of Chemical Information |