Monday, June 13, 2005

U. S. House Subcommittee on PubChem

This was found from Liblicense and the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

House Approves 0.5% Raise for NIH
by Jocelyn Kaiser
Science Magazine, June 10, 2005 (not free).

"The House subcommittee also appears to have sided with NIH in its fight
with the American Chemical Society (ACS) over PubChem, a new NIH database
holding data on biologically active chemicals. ACS contends that PubChem
duplicates its own subscription-based chemical database. This spring, the
ACS attempted to persuade NIH to scale back its efforts (Science, 6 May
2005, p. 774) and took its case to subcommittee chair Ralph Regula (R-OH),
whose state is home to the headquarters of the ACS database.
In the end, a report accompanying the House bill does not ask the agency
to restrict the scope of the database, but instead 'urges NIH to work with
private sector providers to avoid unnecessary duplication and competition
with private sector chemical databases.' Supporters of PubChem see the
House language as a victory for NIH."

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