Elsevier teams up with AI firm to extract chemical structure data from papers
Publishing giant will host data on Reaxys but researchers have concerns about independently validating the method
Elsevier is to use AI technology developed specifically for chemistry to extract and curate information such as images, drawings and reaction schemes from its chemical database and search engine, Reaxys. It claims that substance information from images in patents and journals is captured far more quickly, accurately and at far greater scale than was previously possible.