NLM Resource: Chemical Structure Images Now Available

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The National Library of Medicine® (NLM®) Division of Specialized Information Services (SIS) has added chemical structure images from the NLM ChemIDplus® database to Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB®) records.

The chemical structures can be viewed in the HSDB record header with the chemical name and registry number. Users can save the chemical structure as a ".png" file (right mouse click). It is not available via the HSDB document download feature.

These structures are also available in:

• Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS): Carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, tumor promotion, and tumor inhibition data from the National Cancer Institute (NCI)
  
  
• Comparative Toxicogenomics Database (CTD)™: Molecular mechanisms by which environmental chemicals affect human disease
  
  
• Genetic Toxicology Data Bank (GENE-TOX): Peer-reviewed mutagenicity test data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
  
  
• Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS): Data from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) supporting human health risk assessment and focusing on hazard identification and dose-response assessment
  
  
• International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER): Chemical risk information from authoritative groups worldwide
  
  

NLM Resource: Chemical Structure Images Now Available. NLM Tech Bull. 2011 Mar-Apr;(379):e19.