Chemical Abstracts Service is the world's most comprehensive resource for
online search and analysis of chemical and chemistry related scientific
information. The data on chemical substances in the life sciences is linked
to organisms. The CAS taxonomic file contains more than 147,000 terms,
including over 17,600 insect names. About 300 names are added to the database
every week. Every name is associated with bibliographic records and corresponding
chemical information from the areas of agrochemistry, toxicology, enzymology,
genetics, etc. This makes the CAS database an invaluable resource for biologists,
including applied, medical, and systematic entomologists. Several searches
performed with "STN on the web" database access system are used to
show a variety of information that can be retrieved online and its graphical
interpretation. Families of the order Hymenoptera are used as an example.
Species 1: Hymenoptera
Keywords: database, taxonomy
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