The future of chemical information - information specialists versus end user searching, Clemens Jochum; training challenges of online chemical databases - views of a producer, host and occasional user, Richard Kurt; new access modes to reliable computerized numeric properties data, V.J. Drago and J.G. Kaufman; a sideways look at some patent databases, J.F. Sibley; patent statistics - comparing grapes and watermelons, Edlyn S. Simmons and Nancy Lambert; patenting in biotechnology - an overview of current issues, R.S. Crespi; searching techniques for the tertiary structures of proteins in the protein data bank, Peter J. Artymiuk et al; catalyst - a computer aided drug design system specifically designed for medicinal chemists, P.W. Sprague; infometrics for mapping and measuring science and technology, W.A. Turner; the information environment and the productivity of research, Michael E.D. Koening; biosequence searching and its application in the pharmaceutical industry, Huei-Nin Liu-Johnson and James F. Corning; international collaboration of protein databases - sequence databases, nonsequence databases and variant databases, Akira Tsugita and Fuminori Okibayashi; USDA, plant genome research programme - problems and solutions, J.P. Miksche et al; sequence databases from EMBL and developments in electronic access, Peter J. Stoehr; from spectra to structure - spectroscopic databases and the spectral analysis system SpecInfo, Michael G. Weller; flexible fitting of target molecules to 3D pharmacophore models, C.M. Venkatachalam and Ryszard Czerminski Potenzone Jr; patent databases - a critical overview of databases and media, Irene Savignon.
