IBM's Chemical Kinetics Simulator program (CKS) is available for downloading from the IBM website and can simulate complex chemical kinetics in gas, solution and solid phases.
ChemSpider makes available a database of chemical structures and predicted properties as well as providing access to a series of property prediction algorithms. Its database currently has over ten million compounds, and was written by 'ChemZoo' which currently appears not to have a website. A significant amount of the data is gathered from PubChem.
VISTA and Ingenta have merged to create Publishing Technology plc, which will be the "largest provider of specific software solutions to the publishing industry".
MDL/Elsevier has acquired the Beilstein Database (but not the Beilstein Institute). Both the production and marketing of the Beilstein Database have been managed by Elsevier since 1998.
Just more than a century after the Mendenhall Order which adopted the metre and kilogram as the fundamental standards of length and mass in the United States, NASA has decided to use the metric system for all journies to the moon. The NIST has a metric programme, that " seeks to accelerate the Nation's transition to the metric system". Most countries already use the metric system.
