Chemical information activities: what the future holds

The current state of chemical information technology in a number of areas is presented. The author speculates on a number of areas in some detail and presents a list of predictions as to the likely state of the field in about the year 2000. The economies of chemical information are also briefly disc...

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Published inJournal of chemical information and computer sciences Vol. 33; no. 3; pp. 284 - 291
Main Author Heller, S.R
Format Publication
LanguageEnglish
Published 1993
Subjects
chemistry
computer software
information systems
literature reviews
trends
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Summary:The current state of chemical information technology in a number of areas is presented. The author speculates on a number of areas in some detail and presents a list of predictions as to the likely state of the field in about the year 2000. The economies of chemical information are also briefly discussed. The author concludes that until the computer is made to be an easily used tool, not a barrier, reasonable, let alone optimum usage, will not result.