MolBank: First fully web-based publication of chemical reaction data of individual molecules with structure search a submission

Experimental data of organic synthesis and compound analysis is very precio us chemical information. The monthly chemistry journal Molecules (http://ww w.mdpi.org/molecules/) started to publish a new column of MolBank in April 1997. The intention is to preserve a large amount of experimental data of o rganic synthesis and structural characterization of individual molecules, w hich has been conventionally unpublishable. Short notes of one-paper one-pa ge for one structure are published. We report the experience and the recent improvement of the MolBank section. All the published structures can be se arched by substrucure, in addition to text search functions at the http://w ww.molbank.org server, since August 1999. The structure-drawing and display fully web-browser-based and independent of any other additional software.