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.