HOBOKEN, N.J. and COLUMBUS, Ohio, May 22,
2017 /PRNewswire/ -- John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (NYSE:
JWa) (NYSE: JWb), and CAS, a division of the American Chemical
Society, today announced a partnership that will accelerate the
evolution of predictive synthesis by enriching Wiley's
award-winning ChemPlanner technology with the most accurate and
complete chemical information from CAS.
Rapid advances in the fields of predictive analytics, artificial
intelligence and machine learning offer tremendous opportunity to
enhance the way scientific information is queried and analyzed.
ChemPlanner's state-of-the-art cheminformatics technology helps
chemists find the best selection of diverse and viable routes for
their synthesis, increasing their efficiency and creativity when
developing new molecules.
As an innovative provider of sophisticated digital information
solutions, CAS will enhance ChemPlanner with a wealth of additional
reaction content and associated references, including reactions
from patents. Integrating more than 10 times the reaction
content and offering valuable new features suggested by current
ChemPlanner users, including stereoselective retrosynthetic
prediction and customizable relevance ranking, this powerful new
version of ChemPlanner will be delivered exclusively in
SciFindern, a new research experience from CAS that
exponentially elevates scientific discovery.
"The integration of the rich CAS content portfolio will greatly
enhance the quality and scope of ChemPlanner's predictions, as well
as the utility of the resulting synthetic routes to help
researchers overcome synthesis challenges faster," said Dr.
Matthew J. Toussant, senior vice
president of product and content operations, CAS. "CAS has a
strategic focus on leveraging emerging machine learning and
predictive technologies to accelerate the pace of scientific
research, and this is our initial step in that evolution."
"Wiley is thrilled to collaborate with CAS and to make
ChemPlanner accessible to hundreds of thousands of researchers
worldwide," said Jay Flynn, SVP
& MD, Research Publishing, Wiley. "CAS is big data for
chemistry, making this marriage of best-in-class content and
technology a natural partnership. Our goal is to provide powerful,
data-driven content that helps chemists solve global
challenges."
About CAS
CAS, a division of the American Chemical
Society, is dedicated to the ACS vision of improving people's lives
through the transforming power of chemistry. The CAS team of highly
trained scientists finds, collects, and organizes all publicly
disclosed substance information, creating the world's most valuable
collection of content that is vital to innovation worldwide.
Scientific researchers, patent professionals and business leaders
around the world rely on a suite of research solutions from CAS
that enables discovery and facilitates workflows to fuel tomorrow's
innovation. Visit the CAS website at
http://www.cas.org.
About Wiley
Wiley, a global company, helps people and organizations develop the
skills and knowledge they need to succeed. Our online scientific,
technical, medical, and scholarly journals, combined with our
digital learning, assessment and certification solutions help
universities, learned societies, businesses, governments and
individuals increase the academic and professional impact of their
work. For more than 200 years, we have delivered consistent
performance to our stakeholders. The company's website can be
accessed at www.wiley.com.
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