Neighboring information universes

1. Chemical literature - document-oriented informatics
2. Chemical databases - our core: catalogs, registries, properties
3. Reaction databases - transformations
4. Polymer data - important information which is poorly-organized
5. Process chemistry - large databases for few reactions
6. Materials data - typically lots data for few substances
7. LIMS data - Laboratory Information Management Systems
8. Spectral data - generally used with LIMS-oriented systems
9. Combinatorial libraries - super-specialized representations
10. Hedonics data - e.g., taste and fragrance data
11. Natural products - both molecular and goop
12. Computational results - a cache for computational services
13. Modeling data- not currently database oriented, but could be
14. Chemical patents - a DMZ between legal and chemical universes
15. Crystallographic data - small vs. large molecules
16. Bioinformatics and Genomics data - primarily sequence-oriented data

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