MDL CrossFire training course
MDL CrossFire is a unique chemical database consisting of Beilstein and Gmelin databases. MDL CrossFire training course, that will be organized at CSC on April with a lecturer from Elsevier MDL, will be a mixture between courses "Searching CrossFire Beilstein 7.0" and a more advanced "MDL CrossFire Generic Searching" depending on the interests of the participants. Please remember to mark your preferation to the registration form to tell us which topic you prefer more.
Program
MDL CrossFire training course is a mixture between the following two courses, emphasis on that the topic which is more prefered between the participants.
1. Searching CrossFire Beilstein 7.0
This course focuses on the content and data structure of the CrossFire Beilstein database, teaching search strategies of interest to synthetic organic chemists, medicinal chemists, environmental scientists, pharmacologists, and toxicologists. Search strategies in MDL® CrossFire® Commander include refined structure searching, refined data searching, and reaction searching.
The participants will be able to:
- Conduct a keyword search.
- Conduct searches to retrieve substances based on structure and factual input, physical and chemical properties, and reaction or reacting conditions.
- Navigate the display of search information. Use the Search result dialog boxes, the Automatic search features, hyperlinks, and the "tree view" to track hyperlinks.
- Retrieve compounds by chemical name, CAS Number, structure, physical properties, and chemical data.
- Retrieve reactions based on reaction components or reaction conditions.
- Include query features such as atom lists, and user-defined generics in structural queries.
- Copy and create a report.
- Save, delete, export, and print results.
Prerequisites: None
2. MDL CrossFire Generic Searching 7.0
This course is for experienced MDL® CrossFire® Commander users. It teaches more advanced searching strategies for working with generic groups. The search examples are from the CrossFire Beilstein database and include retrieving molecules, reactions, physical properties, and literature citations.
The participants will be able to:
- Draw structural queries for compounds and reactions including predefined and user-defined generic groups
- Incorporate predefined generic groups and user-defined generic groups in structural queries
- Specify the frequency of user-defined generic structures
- Conduct factual queries that require multiple search criteria to retrieve or exclude compounds
- Work to apply the proper stereochemistry
- Save, delete, export, and print results
Registration
Additional information
The course is free of charge for MDL CrossFire consortium member institutions (number of seats is limited, but at least 3 participants/member institution are accepted to the course). If your institution is not part of the consortium but you are interested about the course, please contact CSC's chemistry specialists for more details.
Participation includes course materials and morning and afternoon
coffee. Lunch is not provided but can be bought at a cafe for ~7-10 Eur.
