CHEST Renews Associations With MDL; Five-Year Deal Extends Academic Community's Access to CrossFire Databases.Business Editors, Health/Medical Writers SAN LEANDRO, Calif. & BATH, U.K.--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 20, 2002 MDL MDL - (Originally "Muddle"). C. Reeve, Carl Hewitt and Gerald Sussman, Dynamic Modeling Group, MIT ca. 1971. Intended as a successor to Lisp, and a possible base for Planner-70. Basically LISP 1.5 with data types and arrays. Information Systems, Inc., the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life sciences and chemistry in industry and academia, its affiliate MDL Information Systems GmbH, and CHEST, the negotiation and license management Service of EduServ, a not-for-profit organization and registered charity in the United Kingdom which works for the benefit of education, have signed an agreement that will provide members of the education community as given below with access to CrossFire A multi-GPU interface from ATI for connecting two ATI display adapters together for faster graphics rendering on one monitor. CrossFire machines require PCI Express slots, a CrossFire-enabled motherboard and, depending on which models are used, either a pair of ATI Radeon adapters or one Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin databases until October 2006. Under the agreements, staff members and students at participating academic institutions in the U.K., the Republic of Ireland, and Scandinavia will be able to electronically search vast MDL databases for organic, inorganic, and organometallic organometallic /or·ga·no·me·tal·lic/ (-me-tal´ik) consisting of a metal combined with an organic radical, used particularly for a compound in which the metal is linked directly to a carbon atom. chemical information, including chemical structures and reactions, associated chemical and physical properties, and detailed pharmacological and ecological data. Manchester Information and Associated Services (MIMAS Mimas (mī`măs), in astronomy, one of the named moons, or natural satellites, of Saturn. Also known as Saturn I (or S1), Mimas is 244 mi (392 km) in diameter, orbits Saturn at a mean distance of 115,275 mi (185,520 km), and has equal orbital ) in collaboration with the John Rylands University Library The John Rylands University Library (JRUL) is the University of Manchester's library and information service. It was formed in 1972 from the merger of the library of the Victoria University of Manchester with the John Rylands Library. of Manchester (JRULM JRULM John Rylands University Library of Manchester (UK) ) and University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) was a university based in the centre of the city of Manchester in England. It specialised in technical and scientific subjects and was a major centre for research. (UMIST UMIST University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UK) ) will host the product service. The Agreement has been achieved as a result of a close collaboration with the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC JISC Joint Information Systems Committee (UK) JISC Japan Industrial Standards Committee JISC Joint Industry Safety Committee ), the organization that promotes innovative application and use of information systems and information technology in further and higher education across the UK. The JISC in this case is underwriting the cost of providing access to CrossFire from the University of Manchester's "MIMAS" Service. MIMAS provided this service for five years, during which time it saw the number of participating institutions rise from 50 to more than 80. By negotiating agreements on the basis of national and international consortia for the academic community, CHEST makes data and software more affordable for institutions that previously were unable to justify individual access. "Through site licenses to institutions, this agreement provides staff and students with unlimited -- but controlled -- access to vital information," said Senior Contracts Officer Emma Thompson of CHEST. "Renewing this agreement was a priority for us because of the proven value of CrossFire to academics, which has been demonstrated over the previous five years." Consulting the chemical information and literature citations in the CrossFire databases is a necessary precursor to research or development in many fields, including pharmaceutical, life science, and materials science. The CrossFire Beilstein database contains over 8 million organic compounds, over 9 million reactions, and 1.7 million citations; CrossFire Gmelin contains over 1.5 million inorganic and organometallic compounds, 1.3 million reactions, and 1 million citations. The CrossFire databases are the most comprehensive, electronically searchable resources of their kind. "At MDL we are proud of the exceptional quality and accessibility of chemical data in CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin," said Lars Barfod, executive vice president and chief business officer for MDL. "We are always pleased when we have an opportunity to provide the academic community with broad access to this essential information." The agreement with CHEST comprises access to CrossFire Beilstein and CrossFire Gmelin, Beilstein Commander, AutoNom 2000, CrossFire Web, and LitLink/Pro. The LitLink/Pro service is planned to begin in February 2002. The CrossFire Web service will be provided by MIMAS within six months of the release of CrossFire Web for academic use by MDL. Beilstein Commander and CrossFire Web are software used to search and access the databases. AutoNom is a program, integrated with Beilstein Commander, which generates IUPAC IUPAC: see International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. names for chemical structures. LitLink/Pro allows the user to link directly from citations found in the CrossFire databases to the corresponding online full-text articles. (Note: LitLink does not grant additional access rights to such articles). Additional information about the agreement is available on the CHEST Website at www.chest.ac.uk/datasets/mdl.html. About MDL MDL Information Systems ("MDL") is the recognized leader in discovery informatics for the life sciences and chemistry in industry and academia. MDL software, content, and services provide the enterprise-wide discovery informatics framework for comprehensive and successful discovery research. We are an international business headquartered in San Leandro, CA, with offices worldwide. MDL Information Systems, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Elsevier Science, Inc. For more information about MDL, visit www.mdli.com. About CHEST CHEST, a Service of EduServ, is a UK-registered charity. EduServ was established with the support of the UK higher education funding bodies, in order to oversee the activities of CHEST, NISS NISS - National Information Services and Systems (concerned with online information and content provision), and Athens (the provision of a range of Access Management System services). EduServ is controlled by a Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. and is not owned or controlled by any single group or organization. It is, in effect, owned by the community that it serves. Its constitution requires that any surpluses be returned to the community. For more information about CHEST, visit www.chest.ac.uk. About MIMAS MIMAS is a JISC-supported national data center providing the UK higher education, further education, and research community with networked access to key data and support for teaching, learning, and research across a wide range of disciplines. MIMAS is based at the University of Manchester The University of Manchester is a university located in Manchester, England. With over 40,000 students studying 500 academic programmes, more than 10,000 staff and an annual income of nearly £600 million it is the largest single-site University in the United Kingdom and receives and the services are available free of charge to users at eligible institutions -- although site subscriptions are required for a number of the data and information resources available through MIMAS. Some MIMAS services require individual registration. For more information about MIMAS, visit www.mimas.ac.uk. About JISC The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) promotes the innovative application and use of information systems and information technology in further and higher education across the UK. The JISC is currently funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is a non-departmental public body of the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (previously the Department for Education and Skills) in the United Kingdom which distributes funding to Universities and , the Learning and Skills Council, the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council, the Scottish Further Education Funding Council, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales (HEFCW) is an Assembly Sponsored Public Body. It is an intermediary body between the Welsh Assembly Government and the higher education sector in Wales. , the National Council for Education and Training for Wales Wales, Welsh Cymru, western peninsula and political division (principality) of Great Britain (1991 pop. 2,798,200), 8,016 sq mi (20,761 sq km), west of England; politically united with England since 1536. The capital is Cardiff. , and the Department for Employment and Learning Department for Employment and Learning is a Government Department in the Northern Ireland Executive. The aim of the Department is to "promote learning and skills, to prepare people for work and to support the economy.". for Northern Ireland. The JISC works in partnership with the Research Councils. For more information about JISC visit www.jisc.ac.uk. Note to Editors: MDL and LitLink are registered trademarks in the United States of MDL Information Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. CrossFire is a trademark of MDL Information Systems GmbH. AutoNom is a registered trademark of Beilstein-Institut zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften, licensed to Beilstein Chemiedaten und Software GmbH and MDL lnformation Systems GmbH. Gmelin is a trademark of Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker, licensed to MDL Information Systems GmbH. Beilstein Data: Copyright (c) 1988-2002 Beilstein-Institut zur Forderung der Chemischen Wissenschaften licenced to Beilstein Chemiedaten und Software GmbH and MDL Information Systems GmbH. Gmelin Data: Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker licensed to MDL Information Systems GmbH; 1988-1999: Gmelin Institut fur Anorganische Chemie und Grenzgebiete der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der Wissenschaften. All rights reserved. |
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