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Representation and Searching of Chemical-Structure Information in Patents

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Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval

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Abstract

This chapter describes the techniques that are used to represent and to search for molecular structures in chemical patents. There are two types of structures: specific structures that describe individual molecules; and generic structures that describe sets of structurally related molecules. Methods for representing and searching specific structures have been well established for many years, and the techniques are also applicable, albeit with substantial modification, to the processing of generic structures.

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    CAS at http://www.cas.org.

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Holliday, J.D., Willett, P. (2011). Representation and Searching of Chemical-Structure Information in Patents. In: Lupu, M., Mayer, K., Tait, J., Trippe, A. (eds) Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval. The Information Retrieval Series, vol 29. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19231-9_17

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