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CAS Customer Research

STN

Would you consider being able to search by trade names and/or lab codes a benefit to your workflow?

Yes	62%
No	27%
Other	12%

CAS SciFinder Customer Testimonial

The CAS Lexicon has been a long-awaited enhancement that allows our researchers to use the full power of CA Concepts to do comprehensive and focused searches.

— Charles Huber, Librarian / Information Manager, UC - Santa Barbara

CAS Customer Research

Formulus

To you, how important is it to be able to search by trade names and/or lab codes?

Extremely important	21%
Kind of important	37%
Neutral	32%
Slightly less important	5%
Not at all important	5%

CAS SciFinder Case Study

PCC Chemax

Introduction

This case study of PCC Chemax is based on a July 2021 survey of SciFinderⁿ customers by TechValidate, a 3rd-party research service.

“Regulatory and chemical inventory status helps me to select appropriate chemistries for projects. Enhanced Markush searching helps me to locate substances more easily.”

“It helps me to quickly rule out substances based on inventory status. It also helps me to see possible synthetic routes.”

Challenges

The types of research challenges CAS SciFinder helps them solve:

Conducting literature reviews for hypothesis generation
Finding commercially available chemicals

Use Case

Features and functionalities of CAS SciFinder that the surveyed company finds particularly useful:

Enhanced Markush searching with location of a desired structure pinpointed within a patent document
Ability to exclude select criteria in search results

Results

The surveyed company achieved the following results with CAS SciFinder:

They estimate it would take twice the amount of time as using CAS SciFinder to conduct literature reviews.

CAS SciFinder Customer Testimonial

I don’t expect to still rely on bioactivity data outside CAS SciFinder because this is too convenient.

— Yongsheng Chen, R&D Manager / Team Leader, Lanzhou Dawnrays Pharml Co Ltd.

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