Cas Scifinder shines with advanced AI

A platform for scientific search and insights, Cas Scifinder shines through the integration of advanced artificial intelligence to help scientists discover. CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society specializing in scientific knowledge management, has begun to release updates on its platform this month. All new features will be available within the next two months.

While talking to users, Elizabeth Altizer, product manager at CAS's Scifinder, and her team identified issues with the original platform that could be addressed in the update. New users' help includes SearchSense, an AI-driven search engine, to maximize the content available. It helps you draw connections to make intellectual property and the landscape of previous art easy to manipulate. Interactive retro-synthesis for planning planning studies. A summary for understanding complex research environments.

“Our main goal is to improve users' efficiency,” says Altizer. “We want to help them innovate, find the information they need and draw new connections. We want to have a lot of great information and content and make sure that users get everything they need.”

While developing the update, the Scifinder team wanted SearchSense's AI to help scientists rather than sabotage them. A recent C&EN BrandLab report stated that most chemists surveyed found the AI ​​to be inaccurate when the tool was asked scientific questions. To calm these concerns and build more accurate tools, the Cas Scifinder team trained advanced AI systems with a controlled body of high quality scientific data.

“Scientific information is diverse and complex and difficult to interpret accurately by common AI tools,” says Tim Wahlberg, CAS chief product officer. “By applying these technologies to high-quality, structured data from a CAS content collection, we were able to develop a science smart AI approach that will provide reliable, accurate and reliable answers for scientists.” With these new features, the Cas Scifinder team hopes that scientists can recharge their workflows and return to the lab faster than ever before. “We are committed to providing a wide range of services,” said Michael Dennis, CAS vice president and chief science officer.