Chemical database provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that it will contribute to the Wikipedia project. This collaboration with Wikipedia is in line with CAS' mission to provide access to the world's chemical and scientific literature and patents, with indexes built around the largest compendium of chemical substances, to speed and enable scientific discovery to improve people's lives.
Under the initiative, CAS will work with Wikipedia to help provide accurate CAS Registry Numbers for current substances listed in Wikiprojects - Chemicals section of the Wikipedia Chemistry Portal - that are of widespread general public interest. The CAS Registry is one the most comprehensive collections of chemical substances and the CAS Registry Number is the recognised global standard for chemical substance identification.
A division of the American Chemical Society, CAS provides the world's largest and most current collection of chemical and related scientific information, including the authoritative database of chemical substances, the CAS REGISTRY. CAS combines these databases with advanced search and analysis technologies to deliver complete, cross-linked and effective digital information environment for scientific research and discovery, including such products as SciFinder, STN, STN Express and STN AnaVistTM, among others.
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