The most important task of a synthesis planning program is to assist the
chemist during this process. Therefore, WODCA intentionally has been designed
as an interactive system to assist the chemist when working on synthesis
problems. The system comprises methods for searching for available starting
materials, for generating suitable synthesis precursors, and for finding known
synthesis reactions. All these methods do not have to be used in a
predefined sequence by
the chemist , but they can
be applied at any time to any object within a study. Thus, a study can be
expanded in any direction starting at different points of the synthesis tree.
The chemist
and the computer software should work together
as a team which solves
complicated problems of synthesis design. In keeping with this philosophy
and in order to facilitate communication between the chemist and the computer,
the system should have to speak the language of the chemist; the graphical
language of chemical structures. Thus, great care was put into providing
graphical interfaces to all methods and tools of the WODCA system.
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