Summary List of Resources

The reference materials listed below provide information about features and search techniques for individual databases on STN.

For more information on each STN database, please refer to the Database Summary Sheets.

CA℠/CAplus℠

• CAS Coverage of Prophetic Substances

• CAS Roles in CA/CAplus 

• CA Sections 

• CA Section Thesaurus 

• CAS Coverage of Patents  

• CAS Standard Abbreviations 

• CASLINK for One-Step Structure Searching in CAS REGISTRY℠, MARPAT®, and CAplus (PDF)

CAS REGISTRY

• A Guide to Adding Screens in STN Structure Searching (PDF)

• Basic Name Segment Dictionary (PDF)

• CAS REGISTRY: Finding CAS Registry Numbers (PDF)

• CAS REGISTRY: Stereoisomer Searching (PDF)

• CASLINK for One-Step Structure Searching in CAS REGISTRY℠, MARPAT®, and CAplus (PDF)

• Names of Trans-Fermium Elements 101-110

• Naming and Indexing of Chemical Substances for Chemical Abstracts™ (PDF)

• Nomenclature Changes for CA Index Names (PDF)

• Polymer Class Terms in the REGISTRY File (PDF)

• Property Data Documentation:

  • Definitions of Properties with Searchable Data in REGISTRY (PDF)

  • Property Search Fields in CAS REGISTRY (PDF)

  • Sources of Property Data in REGISTRY (PDF)

  • STN Units System

  • Tagged Experimental Properties in REGISTRY (PDF)

• Searching Coordination Compounds (PDF)

• Searching for Polymer Information on STN (PDF)

• Searching Ring Systems in CAS REGISTRY (PDF)

• Sequence Documentation:

  • Blocking Groups and Annotations for Sequences (PDF)

  • CAS REGISTRY: Exact and Pattern Searching of Nucleic Acid Sequences (PDF)

  • CAS REGISTRY: Exact and Pattern Searching of Protein Sequences (PDF)

  • Motif Sequence Searching (PDF)

• STN Screen Dictionary for Structure Searching (PDF) 

CASREACT®

• CASREACT User Guide (PDF)

• Getting Started in CASREACT (PDF)

CHEMLIST®

Regulatory Lists and Information Covered by CHEMLIST (PDF)

Derwent Markush Resource (DWPIM)

• Derwent Patent Citation Index in DWPI

• Derwent Markush Resource Database on STN - Reference Manual (PDF)

IFIALL

Getting the Most Out of IFIALL Databases on STN (PDF)

INPADOC / INPAFAMDB

• INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB: Country Coverage

• INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB: Family Definition and Displays

• INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB: Legal Status

• INPADOC Kind Codes

• INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB: Update Codes

• INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB: Calculated Expiration Date and Patent Status Indicator

• INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB: Patent Kind Codes and Patent Stage

• INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB: Application and Priority Kind Codes

• Legal Events Coverage in INPADOCDB and INPAFAMDB on STNext

GENESEQ, USGENE, and PATGENE

• GENESEQ, USGENE, PATGENE: Sequence Searching with Translated Sequences

• GENESEQ, USGENE, PATGENE: Sequence Searching with GETSEQ

• GENESEQ, USGENE, PATGENE: Sequence Similarity Searching with BLAST or GETSIM

• GENESEQ, USGENE, PATGENE: Alignment Information

MARPAT

• CASLINK for One-Step Structure Searching in CAS REGISTRY℠, MARPAT®, and CAplus (PDF)

• MARPAT User Guide (PDF)

NAPRALERT

NAPRALERT Classification Codes (PDF)

REAXYSFILESub

REAXYSFILESub – Properties and Reactions (PDF)

RTECS® (Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances)

Comprehensive Guide to the RTECS (PDF)