Elsevier, a global provider of scientific and healthcare information, has launched Reaxys AI Search, a new AI-driven functionality within its Reaxys platform that enables researchers to conduct natural language searches across chemistry-related content. The release is designed to enhance discoverability within the platform’s extensive chemical data repository, eliminating the need for manually structured keyword queries.
Reaxys AI Search applies natural language processing to interpret the intent of user queries, accounting for variations in terminology, abbreviations, and spelling. The feature returns contextually relevant documents drawn from a corpus of over 121 million records, including patents and peer-reviewed journal articles. It is designed to enhance search outcomes across multiple disciplines, including chemical engineering, materials science, and polymer science.
The tool was developed following testing with several hundred chemists and supports interdisciplinary users such as pharmaceutical researchers, materials scientists, and academic investigators. According to Elsevier, the integration of natural language functionality is intended to reduce the time spent searching for relevant documents and allow users to focus more directly on analysis and discovery.
Reaxys AI Search operates within the existing Reaxys interface and complements other search methods such as structure-based and keyword-based options. The current version has been made available to all Reaxys users and is part of a broader AI roadmap, following the platform’s earlier release of Reaxys Predictive Retrosynthesis. Future iterations are expected to introduce enhancements such as improved AI search refinement and summarization capabilities.
Elsevier stated that the tool was developed per its Responsible AI Principles and Privacy Principles, prioritizing data privacy, security, and transparency. All user interactions are private, with no data shared for external model training. Search results are generated solely from Elsevier’s curated and validated content sources.
More information about the Reaxys AI Search feature is available at: https://www.elsevier.com/products/reaxys
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