STN Commands and Quick Reference Resources

STN® quick reference cards and guides provide step-by-step procedures and examples for features and commands.

• ANALYZE and TABULATE for Statistical Analysis (PDF)

• Archive and Redistribute Results with the STN Information Keep & Share ProgramSM (PDF)

• Basic STN Commands (PDF)

• CASM Section Thesaurus (PDF)

• CAS REGISTRYSM: Finding CAS Registry Numbers® (PDF)

• CAS REGISTRY: Stereoisomer Searching (PDF)

• CAS Roles in CA/CAplusSM (PDF)

• CASLINK for One-Step Structure Searching in CAS REGISTRY, MARPAT®, and CAplus (PDF)

• Citation Searching in SciSearch (PDF)

• Current Awareness Alerts (SDIs) User Guide (PDF)

• DUPLICATE for Identifying or Removing Duplicate Records (PDF)

• INDEX for Evaluating Databases and Searches (PDF)

• Patent-Specific Topics

• Cited Patent Searching (PDF)

• FSEARCH for Finding Patent Families (PDF)

• FSORT for Grouping Patent Records into Families (PDF)

• Patent Search Fields (PDF)

• Polymer Information on STN (PDF)

• Sequence-Specific Topics

• CAS REGISTRY: Exact and Pattern Searching of Nucleic Acid Sequences (PDF)

• CAS REGISTRY: Exact and Pattern Searching of Protein Sequences (PDF)

• Motif Sequence Searching (PDF)

• STNindex User Guide (PDF)

• Thesauri on STN (PDF)

• TRANSFER for Crossfile Searching (PDF)

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