Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced that a patent application claiming compounds with potential therapeutic activity, submitted to China's State Intellectual Property Office, included the 60 millionth substance recorded in the CAS Registry. CAS is a division of US-based American Chemical Society (ACS).
Coming less than two years after CAS Registry crossed the 50 millionth mark, the second major milestone is seen to show the continued acceleration of chemical and scientific output across the globe. CAS scientists are said to keep up with this growth daily, by analysing, organising and curating the output of worldwide research in their native languages to maintain the completeness and quality of CAS' premier substance collection.
The 60 millionth substance, a potential antiviral compound, was assigned the CAS Registry Number 1298016-92-8. The substance was discovered by the Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, a key drug research institutions in China. In the patent application, a team of inventors prepared derivatives of 2-amino-1,3,4-thiadiazine.
CAS Registry is projected as a comprehensive collection of disclosed chemical substance information. It contains more than 60 million unique organic and inorganic substances, such as alloys, coordination compounds, minerals, mixtures, polymers and salts, and more than 62 million sequences.
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