Formación CAS Scifinder-n: Multidisciplinary Training Online Sessions

16/05/2022 | Bibliotecas USAL

CAS SciFinder-n

CAS SciFinder-n Multidisciplinary Training Online Sessions

Desde CAS ofrecen una serie de formaciones de CAS SciFinder-n sobre diversas temáticas relacionadas con el recurso y destinadas a la comunidad universitaria (PAS, PDI, alumnos).
Las sesiones serán impartidas online y en inglés con una duración de 1h en la que habrá tiempo para preguntas.
CAS emitirá certificados de asistencia y, además, las grabaciones de las sesiones.
Recordamos que para acceder a nuestra suscripción de SCIFINDER-n  es necesario registrarse (siempre que no estén registrados en la plataforma) desde ordenador de la RedUSAL y obtener claves de acceso.

Pharmacy & Medicine     17/05/2022-15h.   Register

  • Substance – Bioactivity
  • Drug Delivery – Reference Searching
  • Drug Formulation Purpose – Therapeutic Use
  • Active Principles Characterization & Analysis
  • Medicine Substance Role & Diseases – Adverse Effects
  • Medicine and Pharmacy Regulatory Information
  • Most prominent Authors – Citations
  • Pharmacy Patents – PatentPak
  • Patent Markush Drug Search
  • Espacenet & Prior Art- Patents – Formulation


Physics     19/05/22-15h.   Register

  • Magnetic materials and electronic devices –  Strategies for an efficient Reference search.
  • Characterization of semiconductors –Substance specific and broad approaches.
  • Nanostructures as captured in journals and patents.
  • Computer simulations –The broad coverage of research areas in SciFinder-n.


Intellectual Property (IP)     24/05/22-15h.    Register

  • A  valuable tool for patent searching.
  • Different intellectual property (IP)  documents & references.
  • Patents search and visualization (PatentPak)
  • Markush structures in substance and reaction search
  • ChemScape: display different patents sorted by similarity, chronologically, etc.
  • Different filters: CPC & IPC, patent office, jurisdiction, etc.
  • Tips to for narrowing down your results while not losing relevant hits.



Total Synthesis     25/05/22-15h.    Register

  • Total synthesis: experimental and predicted reaction steps.
  • How to find natural products from specific species in nature.
  • Retrosynthesis tool in creative view of the alternatives to asynthetic approach for a (novel) target molecule.
  • Substance/reaction/reference searching organometallic compounds.
  • Functional and efficient application of different filters for larger reactions (yield, selectivity or green chemistry approach).



Biology & Biotechnology     01/06/22-15h.    Register

  • Biosequence searching in SciFinder-n (increasing the biosequences collection to over 1 billion sequences; protein & nucliec acids).
  • Text-based searches for biological matter and how to filter the most relevant results.
  • How to use the BLAST, CDR, and Motif search options to explore biosequence content.
  • Linking sequence content to the respective patent and journal references,along with links to the NCBI database.
  • Ways to refine results using indexed concepts.
  • Combining biosequence search results with small molecule search results to locate information on antibody-drug conjugates.



Materials     02/06/22-15h.      Register

  • Synthetic /natural polymers – Substance Searching and Indexing in SciFinder.
  • Polymer synthesis & characterization methods – Substance Roles
  • Engineering – Content and Reference Searching.
  • Mechanical essays – Text Searching.
  • Nanoparticles – Substance and Concept Indexing.
  • Applications – Refinement of answer sets.
  • Patents – PatentPak and Prior Art Analysis.



CAS SciFinder-n Q2 Novelties (en Español)   15/06/22-15h.    Register

  • The last update about newly integrated solutions to the platform in the second quarter of 2022.

     – Explained with examples.