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Improve your STN® searching skills over lunch with a free STN Patents & Pizza session STN Patents & Pizza sessions are held monthly from 11:45 am - 1:00 pm at the Embassy Suites Alexandria - Old Town. If there is a change in venue you will be notified via email. Upcoming Sessions January 10, 2017 – Find What You’re Missing: Search Markush Structures on STN Comprehensive searching for substance information involves a search of both CAS REGISTRY and MARPAT®. Learn to: Plan a Markush structure search Extend a structure search from CAS REGISTRY into MARPAT Use CASLINK for one-step structure searches in REGISTRY, MARPAT and CAplusSM February 16, 2017 – What’s New on STN? Get up-to-date on the latest from STN. Learn what’s new and coming soon on both classic and new STN. March 14, 2017 – Strategies For When You Have More Answers Than Time Even precise searches sometimes result in large answer sets. Learn to manage large answer sets: Remove duplicates in a multifile search Refine with SORT, ROLES, or Classification Codes Use the DISPLAY BROWSE command April 11, 2017 – Tips for Finding Inorganic Substances on STN Inorganic substances are used in many technologies, from catalysts to touch screens. Learn: How inorganic substances are registered How to search metal containing alloys, tabular inorganic substances and Element Terms May 9, 2017 – CAS Roles in CAplusSM: Your Shortcut to Precise Results CAS roles are shortcuts for retrieving precise information about the chemistry, biochemistry, or chemical engineering related to a substance or group of substances. They are assigned to every indexed substance and to controlled terms for classes of substances in CAplus. In this session, learn about the nature and functionality of CAS Roles. June13, 2017 –The Secret Life of CAS REGISTRYSM CAS REGISTRY is the most comprehensive database of publicly disclosed chemical information in the world. Learn about: Types of CAS Registry Numbers® Special fields in REGISTRY, including Class identifiers, Polymer Class Terms, Editor Notes and Definitions July 11, 2017 – Advance Your Structure Search Techniques Controlling precision and recall in a structure search can be tricky, but it is important so that you know what types of substances will be retrieved. Learn about: Tips and tricks to use in your substructure search queries to include (broaden) or eliminate (narrow) certain groups or classes of substances Nuances of substructure searching, such as connectivity, bond values, bond types, atom attributes, and ring properties August 8, 2017 – Increase Confidence in Your Search ResultsImprove confidence in your search results by using more STN tools and resources. This session will review tools and techniques to improve search comprehensiveness and precision, including truncation, proximity between search terms, multifile searching, and using online thesauri. September 12, 2017 – Do the Math: Numeric Searches on STN Numeric property content is available in many databases on STN. Learn how to: Search for the presence of numeric values within special numeric fields in CAS REGISTRY Search numeric properties within the text in databases with the Numeric Property Search (NPS) feature Refine searches with numeric terms using standard STN Boolean and proximity operators October 10, 2017 – Build a Better Search with Synonyms from the CASM Lexicon The CA LEXICON is a powerful technical thesaurus that provides important insights into the indexing terminology used in the CAplus database. Learn how to use the LEXICON to build comprehensive and precise search strategies, using: Subject, substance and taxonomic terms Broader, narrower, older and related terms November 14, 2017 – Improve Structure Queries with Bond Attributes Understanding how bonds are defined in CAS REGISTRYSM can improve the precision of structure searches. Learn: Tips for using bond values and bond characteristics when building structure queries on STN How the use of particular bond values in the query affect retrieval of substances from REGISTRY December 12, 2017 – STN Potpourri In this session, we discuss a variety of Frequently Asked Questions, and questions submitted by STN searchers throughout the year. Suggested solutions and examples will be provided.
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