On Dec. 8th 2011, IBM announced launch of a new database which will provide access to more than 2.4 million chemical compounds extracted from about 4.7 million patents and 11 million biomedical journal abstracts from 1976 to 2000. The new venture is in collaboration with Bristol-Myers Squibb, DuPont and Pfizer.
This new collection of data is merged into a database at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) at the National Institutes of Health in Washington. The new database, named as PubChem, is open to the public on the Internet. This publicly available data can be used by researchers worldwide to gain new insights and explore new areas of research. It will also help researchers save time by more efficiently finding information buried in millions of pages of patent documents. Access to this data further allows researchers to analyze far larger sets of documents than the traditional manual process, adding a whole new dimension to the ability to search patents.
Techniques such as automated image analysis and enhanced optical recognition of chemical images and symbols are used to extract data from patent documents. The new technologies have considerably reduced time for this process, which would have otherwise taken weeks and months to complete manually.
With the news coming in, that this database already gets about 15,000 users per day and various companies and organizations download 15 terabytes of information per day, it may be considered as a major milestone in an ever widening online patent access.
The database is available here
Author: Nirmal
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