Welcome to the Thomson Pharma^sm Update - June 2005

Here you will find news of all the latest information and enhancements within Thomson Pharma, together with hints and tips, case studies, and user scenarios that will help you make the most of this ground-breaking solution.

We designed Thomson Pharma to be continuously updated; it's part of what makes the solution so unique. So as we add new features and functionality and enhance Thomson Pharma to respond quickly to customer needs, we will keep you posted via this bulletin.

In this edition, find out:

• About newly added content and functionality
• Tips on viewing the Intellectual Property reports
• Which events you can see us at in June

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April Update

What's new

The following new content and functionality were added to Thomson Pharma on 23rd May:

• A new FDA Advisory Committee portlet has been added. This provides the latest information on drugs currently being reviewed by the FDA. You can access the portlet via the Licensing and Development and Competitive Intelligence Home Pages

• Within Intellectual Property reports, you can now obtain information about the INPADOC legal status of a patent by using the Legal Status link in the Related Information section of the left-hand menu

• Quarterly earnings are now included as part of the financial data found within Company reports

• A Company Collaborations field has been added to Company reports. This enables you to see which company an organization is collaborating with on drugs. You can also see which of the collaborators is the originator of the drugs

• You can now link from Drug reports to Literature and News reports through a bibliography of references

• Literature and News reports now include author abstracts from the world's leading scholarly journals drawn from ISI Web of KnowledgeSM, Web of Science®, Derwent Drug File, and IDdb

• Three new portlets have been added to Targets reports:
  
• Drug Lifecycle portlet—enables you to view a graph for each target showing the development status of drugs that have a specific interaction with that target, based on the lowest level of drug interaction
• Function portlet—enables you to now view information on a target taken from the Swiss-Prot database, the renowned public domain database of protein sequences
• Protein Reference portlet—enables you to extend your research by linking to the full Swiss-Prot record, which contains a high level of annotations

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Hints & tips

• In Intellectual Property reports, you can see where and when an invention has been patented by viewing extensive patent family information and linking to related patents

• In Intellectual Property reports, you can easily find commercial drug information by using the Drug Links within the Related Information section

• You can easily change the frequency of your e-mail alerts. Simply select Saved Searches and use the drop down box to select the desired frequency

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June Events

You can speak to Thomson Pharma product specialists at the following events:

• 8th Annual IGPA International Generics Conference 2005 - 19-22 June - Malta
• Drug Information Association Annual Meeting - 26-29 June - Washington, DC, USA

Full event schedule
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Customer support

A complete customer support unit is on hand to meet your needs quickly and efficiently. Please feel free to contact them on any issue related to using Thomson Pharma.

You can contact them with your query by completing the Web form at:

thomsonscientific.com/support/techsupport

You can also find more information about using Thomson Pharma on the support page at:

www.thomsonpharma.com/support

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