ISIS (Integrated Scientific Information System) is a client-server-based chemical information management system. It consists of two client or ``desktop'' components (ISIS/Draw and ISIS/Base) and a server component (ISIS/Host). Databases can be local (on the same machine as the client) or remote (on the same machine as the server or `host'). In case of a remote database, a user name and password will have to entered for REFLIB.
The user interacts only with the two desktop components: ISIS/Draw, a chemical structure-drawing package, and ISIS/Base, a chemical database program for local databases (on the desktop machine itself) which also handles access to remote databases (on a server). When querying a remote database, ISIS/Base communicates with ISIS/Host, which runs on the server and handles access to the remote database. ISIS/Host executes the query and returns the search results to ISIS/Base.
Both ISIS/Base and ISIS/Draw are provided with an extensive Hypertext help facility and there are also Worked Examples for SAMSAM users.
At the CAOS/CAMM Center a number of databases have been installed.
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Last updated on February 9, 1999.