With ScienceIP you have access to twelve of the industry's most experienced scientists, researchers and patent specialists. Whether you are looking for more information on nucleic acids, trying to find out if your patent has been compromised by an unauthorized party or a chemical agent has a specific match, ScienceIP will have the answer. Review the types of searches below for a more detailed look on the answers we can provide.The following are types of searches:



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Chemical structure

The purpose of this search is to discover chemical entities that either exactly match or are similar to a chemical compound of interest. There are a number of different types of structure searches that can be conducted including:

  • Exact - where the discovered compound exactly matches the query compound.

  • Substructure - where the discovered compound(s) completely encompass the query compound but may contain additional elements.

  • Markush - where the chemical compounds being queried are potentially contained within a collection of generic or prophetic compounds defined using variable functional groups, atoms, ring sizes, etc... Markush structures are generally associated with patent literature.

  • Fragmentation - where the query molecule is defined as the sum of its individual pieces or fragments and discovered compounds will contain the same collection of fragments but not necessarily connect in the same way that the query molecule was connected (i.e., functional groups, types of ring systems, etc.).
Chemical structures can also be discovered by other means including searching by molecular formula, CAS Registry Number ®, ring size and other chemical attributes. This type of search is often referred to as a dictionary search.