It:intro-2011
Chemical Information Technology 2011-2012
A series of lecture demonstrations and workshops by Andrew McKinley [email a.mckinley]
Room 841, Chemistry Department, Imperial College London
Course Overview
The CIT course is designed to give you an introduction to using information services in your pursuit of your studies and to give you grounding in the tools used by the chemistry sector at large.
New services are being implemented all the time, and new features added to existing services; these pages are to serve as a guide to services, and the Wiki format allows anyone (with an IC login) to edit and update - this allows you to update the pages if you spot a mistake or become aware of a useful resource to share with others. Please do feel free to log in and annotate the pages if you see areas for improvement (though be aware that this cannot be done anonymously!)
As of July 2011 there were:
- 54,041,136 organic and inorganic molecules and substances
- 62,979,883 biological sequences
- undertaking 49,206,442 described reactions
- for which there are >2 billion reported experimental properties
- described in >1 million scientific articles, 250,000 patents and 4,500 books published each year across 10,000 chemistry journals and databases.
Finding information is less like finding a "needle in a haystack"; more like finding a *specific piece of hay* across 100 haystacks!
