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Accelerate Your Research and Unlock Hard-to-Find Analytical Methods & Formulations

AY2023/24 Sem 1
Want to know more about chemical-related research and its usefulness to the community in every phase of the innovation journey? Join this one-day workshop to deep dive into the tools that can help you curate, connect, and analyse scientific knowledge. Learn all about the unique solutions to help you reveal unseen insights and relationships that accelerate your breakthroughs.

10.00am – 11.30am
Empower Your Scientific Journey – Using CAS SciFindern (Basic Level)

Whether you are reviewing the literature for funding applications and manuscripts, developing experimental plans for new projects, or searching for collaborators to help you advance the research in your field, CAS SciFindern speeds up your connection to relevant insights. Featuring the world-renowned CAS Content Collection and the most advanced relevance engine in the industry, CAS SciFindern discovers more relevant and timely information that brings your research ideas to life faster.


  • Learn different search techniques on SciFindern using keywords, substances and reactions
  • Effectively refine search results to find the most relevant literature
  • Plan multi-step synthesis with Retrosynthetic Analysis for known and novel compounds
  • Find the best research protocols for analysis, synthesis and formulations

11.30am – 1.00pm
Lunch Break. Lunch will be provided.

1.00pm – 2.30pm
Techniques to Accelerate Your Research – Using CAS SciFindern (Advanced Level)

Uncover the full potential of searching in CAS SciFindern to gain higher precision in your search, tackle complex search queries and discover new materials from organic compounds, polymers, coordination compounds to inorganic substances. Gain better understanding of the search algorithm and content indexing to craft the best search strategies for your research needs. 

 

Basic knowledge in CAS SciFindern is required. 


  • Using CAS Lexicon
  • Using Knowledge Graph for research insights
  • Revisit the fundamentals of substance searching by text, molecular formula and structure
  • Learn recent enhancements in CAS Draw tool
  • Best practices for searching coordination compounds and using precision analysis
  • Expand your inorganic substance search with structure searching

3.00pm – 3.45pm
Locate Hard-to-Find Analytical Methods – Using CAS Analytical Methods

CAS Analytical Methods is a single source for searching and comparing the latest published scientific methods by featuring step-by-step instructions that you can take right to the lab in areas like pharmacology, HPLC, food analysis, natural product isolation analysis and water analysis.


  • Learn tips and tricks to locate relevant Analytical Literature quickly on SciFindern
  • Use Analytical Methods to view and compare method details
  • Find published analytical methodologies for Pharmaceutical Analysis, Food Analysis, Water Analysis and more

4.15pm – 5.00pm
Gain Insights Beyond Literature to Facilitate in Designing Desired Formulations – Using CAS Formulus

CAS Formulus is a comprehensive formulations database and workflow solution for planning and designing formulations in areas of Pharmaceutical, Cosmetic and Agrochemical Formulations research.


  • Understand a formulation’s effectiveness with quick access to the best information for active ingredients and excipients
  • Get insights beyond literature as you search and interact with formulations data curated from patents, journals, and product inserts more effectively
  • Evaluate ingredients, find alternative suppliers, and explore regulatory requirements in one easy interface



Preparation for Participants

  • Please sign up for a SciFindern account BEFORE the workshop
  • BYOD (laptop), fully-charged and connected to NUS wifi

Speaker

Pamela Oon

Pamela Oon

Manager, Customer Success Specialist (APAC) from Chemical Abstracts Service, CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society
Pamela provides training for customers in Asia Pacific. She has extensive experience as a synthetic and medicinal chemist. Prior to joining CAS, she was a Senior Scientist at GlaxoSmithKline working on neuroscience drug discovery from hit-to-lead to preclinical phase. Pamela graduated from the Department of Chemistry at National University of Singapore with BSc. (Hons.) and MSc. (Chemistry).

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