Mike Lynch
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Michael Felix Lynch MBCS is a Professor Emeritus in the Information School of the University of Sheffield, England, his main research having been in chemoinformatics. Lynch obtained B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in chemistry from University College, Dublin in 1954 and 1957. Following two years in industry in the UK, he joined the staff of Chemical Abstracts Service in Columbus, Ohio in the US, in 1961.
Mike Lynch 's Published Works
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- Review of ring perception algorithms for chemical graphs (1989) (90)
- Strategic Considerations in the Design of a Screening System for Substructure Searches of Chemical Structure Files (1973) (64)
- Variety generation - A reinterpretation of Shannon's mathematical theory of communication, and its implications for information science (1977) (49)
- Stemming and N-gram matching for term conflation in Turkish texts (1996) (48)
- The Automatic Detection of Chemical Reaction Sites (1978) (48)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 8. Reduced chemical graphs and their applications in generic chemical structure retrieval (1987) (37)
- An information-theoretic approach to text searching in direct access systems (1974) (37)
- Analysis of structural characteristics of chemical compounds in a large computer-based file. Part II. Atom-centred fragments (1970) (34)
- Analysis of structural characteristics of chemical compounds in a large computer-based file. Part II. Atom-centred fragments (1970) (34)
- The identification of variable-length, equifrequent character strings in a natural language data base (1972) (34)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 13. Reduced graph generation (1991) (33)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents, 2. GENSAL, a formal language for the description of generic chemical structures (1981) (33)
- Extraction of Information from the Text of Chemical Patents. 1. Identification of Specific Chemical Names (1998) (32)
- The Sheffield Generic Structures Project-a Retrospective Review (1996) (31)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 7. Parallel simulation of a relaxation algorithm for chemical substructure search (1986) (31)
- Automatic extraction of citations from the text of English-language patents - an example of template mining (1996) (28)
- Document Retrieval Experiments using Indexing Vocabularies of varying Size. I. Variety Generation Symbols Assigned to the Fronts of Index Terms (1979) (27)
- Compression of bibliographic files using an adaptation of run-length coding (1973) (26)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents, 1. Introduction and general strategy (1981) (25)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 12. Principles of search operations involving parameter lists: matching-relations, user-defined match levels, and transition from the reduced graph search to the refined search (1991) (24)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic structures in chemical patents. 4. An extended connection table representation for generic structures (1982) (23)
- Theoretical aspects of ring perception and development of the extended set of smallest rings concept (1989) (23)
- Transputer implementations of chemical substructure searching algorithms (1988) (22)
- Automatic interpretation of the texts of chemical patent abstracts. 1. Lexical analysis and categorization (1992) (22)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 5. Algorithmic generation of fragment descriptors for generic structure screening (1984) (22)
- Documentation of Chemical Reactions by Computer Analysis of Structural Changes (1967) (21)
- Text compression using variable-to fixed-length encodings (1982) (21)
- A Method for Generating Unique Computer Structural Representations of Stereoisomers (1967) (20)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents, 3. Chemical grammars and their role in the manipulation of chemical structures (1981) (20)
- Review of Ring Perception Algorithms for Chemical Graphs. (1989) (19)
- Analysis of the microstructure of titles in the inspec data-base (1973) (19)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 10. Assignment and logical bubble-up of ring screens for structurally explicit generics (1989) (19)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 6. An interpreter program for the generic structure description language GENSAL (1984) (19)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 9. An algorithm to find the extended set of smallest rings in structurally explicit generics (1989) (19)
- Some structural characteristics of articulated subject indexes (1968) (18)
- Application of the Variety-Generator Approach to Searches of Personal Names in Bibliographic Data Bases--Part 1. Microstructure of Personal Authors' Names (1974) (18)
- Articulation in the Generation of Subject Indexes by Computer (1967) (18)
- SUBJECT INDEXES AND AUTOMATIC DOCUMENT RETRIEVAL: The Structure of Entries in Chemical Abstracts Subject Indexes (1966) (17)
- Automatic interpretation of the texts of chemical patent abstracts. 2. Processing and results (1992) (16)
- Evaluation and implementation of topological codes for online compound search and registration (1981) (16)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 11. Theoretical aspects of the use of structure languages in a retrieval system (1991) (16)
- Generic structure storage and retrieval (1985) (14)
- A Program Suite for the Production of Articulated Subject Indexes (1973) (14)
- Information retrieval research in the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield: 1965-1985 (1987) (13)
- Sorting of textual data bases: A variety generation approach to distribution sorting (1980) (13)
- Analysis of structural characteristics of chemical compounds in a large computer-based file. Part IV. Cyclic fragments (1973) (13)
- A modified IUPAC-Dyson notation system for chemical structures (1968) (13)
- The Production of Machine-Readable Descriptions of Chemical Reactions Using Wiswesser Line Notations (1978) (12)
- Generic chemical structures in patents (Markush structures): The research project at the University of Sheffield (1986) (12)
- Automatic detection of structural similarities among chemical compounds (1967) (11)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents, 16. The Refined Search: An Algorithm for Matching Components of Generic Chemical Structures at the Atom-Bond Level (1995) (11)
- Analysis of structural characteristics of chemical compounds in a large computer-based file. Part III. Statistical association of fragment incidence (1972) (10)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 14. Fragment generation from generic structures (1992) (10)
- Storage and retrieval of information on chemical structures by computer. (1968) (10)
- Computer analysis of chemical reactions for storage and retrieval. (1970) (10)
- Experimental use of a program for computer-aided subject-index production (1970) (10)
- The stability of symbol sets produced by variety generation from bibliographic data (1978) (10)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical structures in patents. 15. Generation of topological fragment descriptors from nontopological representations of generic structure components (1993) (9)
- An Evaluation of a Substructure Search Screen System Based on Bond-Centered Fragments. (1974) (9)
- Document Retrieval Using a Serial Bit String Search (1983) (9)
- Relationship between Query and Data-Base Microstructure in General Substructure Search Systems (1973) (8)
- Chemical structure processing (1989) (8)
- Computer‐aided Production of Printed Alphabetical Subject Indexes (1969) (8)
- The use of binary search trees in external distribution sorting (1984) (7)
- Compression of Wiswesser Line Notations Using Variety Generation (1979) (7)
- Theoretical Aspects of Ring Perception and Development of the Extended Set of Smallest Rings Concept. (1989) (7)
- Creation of Bibliographic Search Codes for Hash‐addressing using the Variety‐generator Method (1975) (7)
- Structural Search Codes for On-Line Compound Registration (1978) (7)
- Compression of continuous prose texts using variety generation (1980) (7)
- The Sheffield Generic Structures Project - A Retrospective Review (1997) (6)
- Mechanical manipulation of chemical structure: Molform computation and substructure searching of organic structures by the use of cipherdirected, extended and random matrices (1963) (6)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents, 17. Evaluation of the Refined Search (1995) (6)
- Application of the Variety-Generator Approach to Searches of Personal Names in Bibliographic Data Bases--Part 2. Optimization of Key-Sets, and Evaluation of Their Retrieval Efficiency (1974) (6)
- Analysis of structural characteristics of chemical compounds in a large computer-based file. Part V. More detailed cyclic fragments (1973) (5)
- Chemical graph matching using transputer networks (1988) (5)
- Analysis of Structural Characteristics of Chemical Compounds in the Common Data Base (1973) (5)
- A Qualitative Comparison of Wiswesser Line Notation Descriptors of Reactions and the Derwent Chemical Reaction Documentation Service (1979) (5)
- Towards simplified access to chemical structure information in the patent literature (1983) (4)
- Chemical-Biological Activities: A Computer-produced Express Digest. (1963) (4)
- Production of Printed Indexes of Chemical Reactions Using Wiswesser Line Notations (1978) (4)
- Analysis and coding of generic chemical formulae in chemical patents (1981) (4)
- Production of Printed Indexes of Chemical Reactions. I. Analysis of Functional Group Interconversions (1973) (4)
- Processing, Publishing, Storing, Correlating, and Retrieving Biochemical Information at Chemical Abstracts Service. (1966) (4)
- An Evaluation of, and Improvement on, Ayers' Universal Standard Book Number (1975) (4)
- Compression of Bibliographic Data Bases Using a Variable to Fixed‐length Bit‐string Coding Transformation (1974) (3)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents. Part 10. Assignment and Logical Bubble-Up of Ring Screens for Structurally Explicit Generics. (1989) (3)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents. Part 17. Evaluation of the Refined Search. (1995) (3)
- Evaluation of the screening stages of the Sheffield Research Project on Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents (1994) (3)
- Conversion of Connection Table Descriptions of Chemical Compounds into a Form of Wiswesser Notation (1968) (3)
- Production of Printed Indexes of Chemical Reactions. II. Analysis of Reactions Involving Ring Formation, Cleavage, and Interconversion (1974) (3)
- The Sheffield University generic chemical structures project (1993) (3)
- Searching a full generics database (1993) (3)
- The Sheffield University Generic Chemical Structures Project — A Review of Progress and of Outstanding Problems (1988) (3)
- Subgraphs of reduced chemical graphs as screens for substructure searching of specific chemical structures (1989) (3)
- Organisation of large collections of chemical structures for computer searching (1969) (3)
- Chemical structure retrieval : a review of current research in the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield (1990) (2)
- Hash coding of bibliographic data using techniques based on variety generation and on division (1981) (2)
- Chemical databases processing using parallel computer hardware. (1989) (2)
- Generation of fixed‐length search codes from INSPEC words using techniques based on variety generation and on division‐hashing (1981) (2)
- Distribution of Fragment Representations in a Chemical Substructure Search Screening System (1974) (2)
- ANALYSIS OF STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF CHEMICAL COMPOUNDS IN A LARGE COMPUTER-BASED FILE PART 5, MORE DETAILED CYCLIC FRAGMENTS (1974) (2)
- Processing of chemical structure databases using parallel computer hardware (1989) (2)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents. Part 12. Principles of Search Operations Involving Parameter Lists: Matching‐Relations, User‐Defined Match Levels, and Transition from the Reduced Graph Search to the Refined Search. (1991) (1)
- Generic chemical structures in patents — an evaluation of the Sheffield University research work (1989) (1)
- The Use of Molecular Formula Distribution Statistics in the Design of Chemical Structure Registry Systems (1970) (1)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents. Part 15. Generation of Topological Fragment Descriptors from Nontopological Representations of Generic Structure Components. (2010) (1)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents. Part 14. Fragment Generation from Generic Structures. (1993) (1)
- Current research into chemical and textual information retrieval at the department of information studies, University of Sheffield (1987) (1)
- Computer Storage and Retrieval of Generic Chemical Structures in Patents. Part 9. An Algorithm to Find the Extended Set of Smallest Rings in Structurally Explicit Generics. (1989) (1)
- TITLE PUB DATE NOT ! AVAILABLE FROM EDRS PRICE DESCRIPTORS DOCUMENT RESUME FL (2011) (0)
- IT and chemical structure databases (1990) (0)
- Keynote Address R & D in Chemical Information Science: Retrospect and Prospect (1988) (0)
- Computer storage and retrieval of generic chemical formulae in patents : final report for the period October 1981 to September 1983 : report to the British Library Research and Development Department on project SI/G/515 (1984) (0)
- Natural language processing of the texts of chemical patent abstracts (1991) (0)
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