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Open Source Chemistry Analysis Routines (OSCAR)

The recognition and analysis routines used by the Experimental Data Checker Application are available here as a Java toolkit for other developers to take and implement.

OSCAR schematic screenshot

The OSCAR toolkit is Copyright � 2003 - Unilever Cambridge Centre for Molecular Informatics and the Royal Society of Chemistry. By clicking on the download link below, you signify you have read and accepted the terms of the license.

Documentation

The OSCAR toolkit is composed of two groups of files - a static set of Java classes, and a dynamic set. The static set implement the main routines, such as identifying paragraphs, and the dynamic set implement the processing of each data class & the expert analysis rules, and are automatically generated from XML data files.

In addition to the notes on this page, there are also Javadoc pages and XML input documentation pages.

Recognition

Recognition occurs with regular expressions, using the JRegex library.

Compatability

The OSCAR toolkit is designed to be Java 1.1 compatable.

Technologies Used

The following technologies were used: