Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on May 3, 2006
Bioinformatics 2006 22(13):1670-1673; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl155
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Query Chem: a Google-powered web search combining text and chemical structures
1 Howard Hughes Medical Institute 12 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
2 Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT 7 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, MA 02142
3 Harvard University University Hall, Cambridge, MA 02138
4 Harvard Medical School, Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology 250 Longwood Avenue, SGM-322, Boston, MA 02115
*To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Summary: Query Chem (www.QueryChem.com) is a Web program that integrates chemical structure and text-based searching using publicly available chemical databases and Google's Web Application Program Interface (API). Query Chem makes it possible to search the Web for information about chemical structures without knowing their common names or identifiers. Furthermore, a structure can be combined with textual query terms to further restrict searches. Query Chem's search results can retrieve many interesting structureproperty relationships of biomolecules on the Web.
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Received on February 6, 2006; revised on March 28, 2006; accepted on April 19, 2006