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STN Express v7 – Analysis Edition

Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) has announced the latest version of STN
Express. STN Express® Analysis Edition is designed to advance information
professionals” ability to analyse and visualize sci-tech information.
According to CAS, new features in STN Express with Discover! Analysis Edition
(version 7.0) will help information professionals see the “big picture”
when they search and retrieve information from the world’s scientific and
technical literature and patents. Along with the new 2-Dimensional Analyze
Wizard, this new version also introduces tools for chemical structure analysis
and assistance in query development with the CA Lexicon.

“With STN Express Analysis Edition, we have made a significant advance
in the information professional’s ability to gain not just information but
insight from search results,” said CAS vice president, Marketing and Sales,
Suzan A. Brown. “These analysis and visualization tools bring structure to
the vast amount of information drawn from scientific literature and patent
records in STN files.”

“New capabilities in STN Express have been driven by the professional
searchers” need for more productivity and meaningful analysis,” said
Robert L. Swann, CAS vice president, information technology. “Combining our
database content with the latest technology, we have integrated STN Express with
the widely used Microsoft Excel program to deliver a set of tools searchers will
find easy to use and responsive to their needs.”

STN Express with Discover!TM, Version 7.0 for Windows features a
variety of new capabilities, including:

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  a 2-Dimensional Analyze Wizard, to easily analyse and tabulate data, then
  automatically create charts and graphs in Microsoft Excel;

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  the unique Variable Group Analysis Table, to identify the common
  substructure for an answer set of substances identified in the CAS RegistrySM
  with variable R-group locations identified and variable R-groups listed in a
  table; and

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  assistance for query development via an interface to the CA Lexicon, a tool
  for developing search strategies based on the effective use of CA indexing
  terms.