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October 20, 1971

Mr. Joshua Lederberg
Stanford University
Stanford, California 94305

Dear Mr. Lederberg:

Your description of work on information access by chem-
ical structure, reported in LIBRARY AND INFORMATION
SCIENCE TODAY, is very interesting. I have enclosed

a copy of your entry and of mine on this subject. I
would be grateful for any documents and references
describing your work or that of your coworkers that

you can send me.

One reads descriptions of many systems in the litera-
ture but there is very little information on the per-
formance of any one system relative to others. Per-
haps through cooperation between people like ourselves,
we could improve the situation.

It would facilitate the intercomparison of these sys-
tems if we could exchange queries, and include in both
Systems a common collection of structures, for example,
those in the Eastman Organic Chemicals Catalog #46.
What is your reaction to this idea of a cooperative

 
 
  
 

effort?
Very truly yours,
_. 7 . Jus. Lard Wi
pt. of Information Services
search Laboratories
JF Tinker :mb
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