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New Merck Index 14.6 Now Available Online

New data and a smart new interface

Author: Phil McHale
Company: PerkinElmer Informatics
Issue: 20.4

The ever popular structure-searchable Merck Index has recently undergone a double upgrade. The 14.6 update has added 50 monographs, to bring the total to 11,489, and includes 200 updated monographs with new or revised structures with added stereochemistry. The 50 new monographs include 20 compounds with therapeutic uses, 25 compounds with commercial uses and five natural products. In addition to the new content, the interface has been enhanced to take advantage of the new, more robust ChemBioOffice Enterprise platform, and to provide a modern .NET UI which is consistent with CambridgeSoft's other newer databases, but at the same time retaining much of the unique Merck Index look and feel.

CambridgeSoft staff worked closely with the editorial team at Merck & Co., Inc. to ensure that the new UI met their exacting standards, and that in adding new features, none of the popular and well used capabilities of the "classic" UI .....