Chemical information provider Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS), a division of the American Chemical Society, has announced that the SciFinder interface now enables a range of APIs designed to streamline researchers' workflows. CAS has collaborated with several customers to develop API support for reaction, substance and reference searching.
CAS is initially offering this functionality to customers in the corporate market. The available web services will access SciFinder to search CAS databases for chemical information providing a means to seamlessly integrate a customer's internal tools and systems with SciFinder.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a global biotechnology company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has recently successfully integrated SciFinder with internal workflows supporting drug discovery research, providing Vertex scientists with links to specific patents based on select substances of interest to the company.
