Chemical databases have a rich history in the recent past. The development of systematic nomenclature, chemical data formats, and identity standards have allowed chemical data to become increasingly definable and searchable. However, the scope of definitional chemical databases, to date, has remained largely on small well-defined organic molecules. Large molecules and complex poly-disperse substances are often neglected, under-standardized, or entirely ignored. Historically, the scope of chemical databases has been slow to expand into other substance classes due to a lack of available standards, a lack of software tools, and a lack of motivating usage cases for deeply describing such materials. The increasing need to track and monitor medical products of all forms on the global market place, however, has motivated the the creation of the ISO IDMP standards, with ISO 11238 describing a strategy for encoding substance information of diverse forms and origins: from simple chemicals, to complex polymers, extending even to plant and animal material. ginas is a global effort to implement the ISO IDMP substance standard with useful and distributable software tools, with the aim of facilitating the global interchange of well-defined substance information from "lithium" to "leeches".

Ginas: A global effort to define and index substances in medical products

251st National Meeting (2016)

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