1. Edition - January 2007
195.- Euro
2007. 216 Pages, Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0-471-75157-X
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-75157-1 - John Wiley & Sons








Short description
This work provides both newcomers and advanced computer scientists and chemists with an excellent comprehensive how-to guide to developing chemical information systems. The author served as lead architect on the design of said systems at Merck and Co., Inc., and shares his personal knowledge of this development process, with advice on issues such as to build or buy, setting up the various layers, integrating with third party tools (plug and play) and much more.

From the contents
1. Introduction.

2. Software Development Principles: High-Low Open-Closed Principles.

3. Introduction to the Object-Oriented Approach and Its Benefits.

4. Build Versus Buy.

5. The Agile and Iterative Development Process.

6. UML Modeling.

7. Deployment Architecture.

8. Software Architecture.

9. A Case Study: Develop a Chemical Registration System (CRS).

10. A Chemical Informatics Domain Analysis Object Model.

11. Presentation Layer.

12. Business Layer.

13. Entity Dictionary.

14. Chemistry Intelligence API.

15. Data Persistence Layer.

16. Put Everything Together.

Bibliography.

Index.