A History of the UK Chemical Database Service
The Chemical Database Service has existed, in one form or another, for
about 30 years. A book edited by Jan Noordik was produced covering
developments in computerised chemical information around the end of the
twentieth century. This includes a chapter written about the CDS.
"The United Kingdom Chemical Database Service: CDS", Bob McMeeking & Dave
Fletcher, in Cheminformatics Developments: History, Reviews and Current
Research (Ed. J. H. Noordik), IOS Press, Amsterdam, Chapter 2, pp 37-67,
2004.
The CDS chapter covers the history of the Service from its early phase
(solely providing online access to the Cambridge Structural Database) to
its present extensive data portfolio, and gives a good snapshot description
of the Service up until late 2004.
This has now been incorporated as part of a new journal (Cheminformatics,
Volume 1, Numbers 1-2 / 2004)
There is a
link to the
online version of this article on the publishers web site. The article
can be downloaded free of charge.