Reaxys Training

Wednesday 4th August
11am-noon
JCMB rm3217

Reaxys staff demonstrating and taking questions.
CrossFire platform for Beilstein and Gmelin ceases at the end of December 2010. Reaxys is how they will be accessed.

Please book via the MyEd event channel:
http://www.myed.ed.ac.uk

Reaxys at:
http://www.reaxys.com
[on-campus or VPN]

CrossFire - short downtime period - 27th & 28th May

In order to allow for essential operating system updates to be applied to the CrossFire server, there will be a brief period of downtime between 08:00 and 08:30 BST (07:00 - 07:30 GMT) on both Thursday 27th and Friday 28th May.

MIMAS anticipate that the CrossFire service will be unavailable for login for around 5-10 minutes during this period.

latest update of the Beilstein database

Statistics for the new Beilstein database are as follows:

Number of compounds: 11,315,332
Number of citations: 2,249,473
Number of reactions: 22,844,168

Access details from here.

Beilstein update

The latest update of the Beilstein database, 2009/03, was made available on Thursday 3rd September.

Statistics for the new Beilstein database are as follows:

Number of compounds: 11,196,514
Number of citations: 2,239,376
Number of reactions: 22,732,872

There are no changes to the DST files from the previous version, 2009/02.

CrossFire downtime

Emergency Maintenance will affect most Mimas services including CrossFire from 10:00 BST (09:00 GMT) this Thursday, 11 June 2009. A short period of downtime is necessary to remedy a fault - MIMAS hopes no longer than 2 hours.

Beilstein content update

The latest update of the Beilstein database, 2009/01, was made available on Tuesday 17th March.

Statistics for the new Beilstein database are as follows:

Number of compounds: 10,978,219
Number of citations: 2,218,503
Number of reactions: 22,528,937

Chemistry databases

CrossFire - both logins working

CrossFire service is running normally again (as of Saturday 14th Mar) and logins via both IP and web authentication are possible. MIMAS believes the service is now stable, but members of the University of Edinburgh please report any problems to your liaison librarian or directly to CrossFire staff at crossfire--at-mimas.ac.uk.

CrossFire is running again for IP access

Fri 13 Mar 09 pm - CrossFire is running again following the disk controller replacement and firmware upgrade on an essential Mimas file system this morning, and logins via IP authentication are now possible. Unfortunately, web authentication via Shibboleth is not yet possible due to problems with an Oracle database; MIMAS staff are working on this now.

UoEd Open Access computing labs/CrossFire packaged for desktop all have to use IP authentication.

CrossFire - MIMAS downtime

The unavailability of Mimas services including CrossFire continues . Engineers were unable to download the necessary firmware for transfer to one of the disk controllers yesterday and this task was resumed today (13th Mar09) at 9 a.m.

CrossFire down time

All Mimas services including CrossFire will be taken down at 11:15 today, 12th Mar09,in order to replace the faulty disk controller. We anticipate that the work will take around 2 hours. Apologies once again for the disruption.

Tthis is for an engineer to replace the faulty disk controller to solve the continued unavailability of CrossFire logins via web authentication (logins via IP have been possible).

Beilstein update

The latest update of the Beilstein database, 2008/03, was made available on Thursday 2nd October.

This database contains 10,853,341 compounds, 22,416,526 reactions and 2,198,835 citations.

As a consequence of this update, Commander 7.0 and 7.1 will download files either to the group folder in the main Commander installation folder if it is writeable, or if not to your My Documents folder (again assuming that you have write permission, which would normally be the case). We do not believe that users with stand-alone installations of Commander 6 will experience any difficulties, although Commander will only attempt to download the files to the main installation folder.

Please email rowena.stewart@ed.ac.uk or crossfire@mimas.ac.uk if you experience any difficulties.