June 24, 2005
NIH's PubChem Database Infringes on Turf, American Chemical Society Charges
BAD CHEMISTRY: When the National Institutes of Health created a database called PubChem in September 2004, many biomedical researchers rejoiced. PubChem provided them with easy and free access to information about small molecules and links to data used to study genes, cells, and biochemical pathways. One of the major goals of the project was to enable the discovery of drugs to fight cancer and other diseases.
Yet there was little elation at the American Chemical Society. For the last
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