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Course, academic year 2024/2025
  
Chemical Informatics - AB143001
Title: Chemical Informatics
Guaranteed by: Department of Informatics and Chemistry (143)
Faculty: Faculty of Chemical Technology
Actual: from 2020
Semester: winter
Points: winter s.:2
E-Credits: winter s.:2
Examination process: winter s.:
Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, MC [HT]
Capacity: unlimited / unlimited (unknown)
Min. number of students: unlimited
State of the course: taught
Language: English
Teaching methods: full-time
Teaching methods: full-time
Level:  
Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan
enabled for web enrollment
Guarantor: Jirát Jiří Ing. Ph.D.
Interchangeability : B143001, N111003, N143013, N143013A
This subject contains the following additional online materials
Annotation -
Introductory course aimed at getting basic necessary skills for work with scientific chemistry literature, chemistry and multiple-fields databases. Hands-on training are integral part of the course, ensuring required skills are properly trained.
Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
Aim of the course -

Students will be able to:

Understand the basics of scientific publishing process including open-access possibilities

Find and locate documents of various types - scholarly articles, books, e-books, patents, standards; use basic library services, search in catalogue

Work with reference management software, cite research literature

Use citation, factographic, structure and reaction databases on basic level, create query using logical and other operators and structure editors

Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
Course completion requirements -

Assessment based on completion of project

Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
Literature -

R:Chemical Information for Chemists: A Primer. Currano, J.; Roth D., Eds.; RSC Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/9781782620655, 978-1-78262-065-5, DOI:10.1039/9781782620655-00001

A:Chemoinformatics. Gasteiger, J.; Engel, T., Eds. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/3527601643, 9783527601646, DOI:10.1002/3527601643

Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
Requirements to the exam -

Completion of individual miniproject (searching for data) is required.

Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
Syllabus -

1. Introduction, information flow in science

2. Scholar article - structure, citations

3. Identifiers of publications - ISBN, ISSN, DOI. Boole algebra, Internet search engines

4. Citations, citation databases: Web of Science, Scopus

5. Chemical structures - representation, identifiers, linear notation, connection tables, structure editors

6. Chemical Abstracts - history, structure of the printed version. SciFinder - introduction, bibliographic searching

7. Chemical Abstracts - chemical compounds - nomenclature, CAS RN, summary formulas. Bibliographic data for different types of processed documents. SciFinder - structure and reaction searching

8. Beilstein and Gmelin - history. Reaxys database

9. Patents - patenting procedure

10. Standards - standards development, types of standards. ČSN, ISO, CEN

11. Publishing process - past, present, future. Open access

12. Copyright

13. Excursion to joint ICT Prague and NTK library

Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
Learning resources -

1. Jirat, J. Detailed coures instructions. http://ich.vscht.cz/dokuwiki/chemicka_informatika_2011_2012

2. Jirat, J. Lecture and seminar notes for Chemical Informatics course. http://ich.vscht.cz/courses/CHEMINF-1/slides/Output/index.xhtml

3. Součková, A.; Dibuszová, E.; Znamenáček, J. Citation Generator of ICT Press. http://vydavatelstvi.vscht.cz/apps/uid_ea-002/

Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
Registration requirements -

none

Last update: Kubová Petra (16.04.2018)
 
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