Briefs

San Leandro, CA and Paris, France: January 3, 2006 � Elsevier MDL, the pioneering company in discovery informatics, and TEMIS, the leading provider of Text Mining enterprise solutions announced today that they have co-developed the Chemical Entity Relationship Skill Cartridge�, a new software application that identifies and extracts chemical information from text documents.

The software identifies chemical compound names, chemical classes and molecular formulae in text documents and translates extracted information into the chemist�s language: the chemical structure.

For more information, visit www.temis-group.com