Mining chemistry patents in the cloud

As mentioned in recent blog postings, we've been working hard on improving SureChem over the past year and a half. Much of the work has been in improving the scalability and reliability of the data mining pipeline that is at the heart of SureChem, and over on the Digital Science blog we've posted a series of articles that dive into the technical aspects of the new pipeline.

The series consists of three articles with a technical focus, covering what the pipeline does, how it does it, and design considerations:

The articles are titled "Mining Patents in the Cloud" ...

• Part 1 - The SureChem Data Processing Pipeline
• Part 2 - Amazon Web Services
• Part 3 - Design Issues

In future articles we're planning to dive into other technical aspects of SureChem, including the Natural Language Processing techniques that perform named entity extraction of chemical in patent documents. Watch this space for more to come...