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CAS is a scientific information and technology company with over 100 years of experience connecting the world's scientific knowledge to accelerate breakthroughs that improve lives. Serving scientists, R&D leaders, strategists, and intellectual property stakeholders across industries, CAS partners with organizations to provide the essential information, tools, and expertise needed to make confident decisions at every phase of the innovation journey. By curating, connecting, and analyzing data disclosed in scientific publications from around the world, CAS helps organizations identify new possibilities, reduce risk, and get solutions to market faster.

At the core of CAS offerings is the CAS Content Collection™, the world's largest collection of human-curated scientific knowledge covering over 150 years of published science. This high-quality data underpins all CAS solutions and can be licensed for machine learning or integrated into in-house workflows. CAS also emphasizes its role in enabling AI success, recognizing that the quality of underlying scientific data is critical to the success or failure of AI initiatives. CAS brings together intelligently connected content, specialized technology designed for the complexities of scientific and patent data, and an interdisciplinary team of hundreds of scientists and technologists to help organizations build the solid data foundation needed for impactful AI applications.

Key Products and Platforms

• CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform™ — A best-in-class scientific discovery solution designed to power daily research and spark innovation with reliable answers, helping organizations accelerate breakthroughs and get discoveries to market faster throughout the innovation journey.
• CAS BioFinder Discovery Platform™ — A specialized platform for drug discovery that integrates chemistry and biological data with advanced prediction capabilities, simplifying the drug discovery process to accelerate time to market.
• STN IP Protection Suite™ — An intellectual property search and protection solution serving users from new searchers to expert IP professionals, designed to accelerate the innovation journey with IP insights that save time and money and help organizations explore the competitive landscape.
• CAS Custom Services℠ — A tailored service offering that partners with organizations to develop novel solutions for unique business and R&D data challenges, leveraging CAS content, cutting-edge technology, and global scientific expertise.
• CAS Intelligence Hub — A newly launched cloud-based platform that delivers harmonized, AI-ready datasets at enterprise scale, designed to transform scientific data management for large organizations.
• CAS IP Finder — An AI-enhanced intellectual property search solution that simplifies complex IP research and expands access to curated content across organizations.

Core Capabilities

• Curation of the CAS Content Collection™, covering over 150 years of scientific discoveries, built and maintained daily by hundreds of in-house scientists mining global scientific literature.
• AI-ready and machine-learning-compatible scientific datasets available for licensing and integration into organizational workflows.
• Science-smart agentic AI featuring natural-language agents designed to accelerate discovery and surface deeper insights within research workflows.
• Custom data curation projects through CAS Custom Services, addressing unique organizational needs such as supply chain safety and compliance, machine-learning model optimization, and accessible data collection development.
• Specialized technology tools built to address the unique challenges of scientific and patent data, enabling efficient and confident decision-making.
• Interdisciplinary human expertise from a team of hundreds of scientists and technologists spanning diverse scientific disciplines and technologies.

Notable Customers and Use Cases

• Westlake University partnered with CAS to cultivate critical biomaterial trends from scientific literature, leveraging CAS's scientific knowledge expertise and data analytics capabilities.
• Rinchem worked with CAS Custom Services to improve their supply chain management system by integrating data to enhance safety and compliance.
• Selvita used custom-curated datasets from CAS Custom Services to unlock the full potential of its machine-learning model and optimize automated synthesis workflows.
• Toray Industries (Dr. Umi Yamamoto, Senior Research Chemist) highlighted CAS's deep understanding of specialized materials data as a key advantage not available elsewhere.
• CAS also partnered with a chemical company to enhance AI outcomes, demonstrating its ability to improve AI performance through high-quality scientific data foundations.

Thought Leadership and Community Programs

• CAS Insights™ — A content and research hub publishing articles and reports at the intersection of science, technology, and innovation, covering topics such as AI readiness in R&D, point-of-care diagnostics, mechanochemistry, and emerging technologies in microelectronics.
• CAS Future Leaders™ — A global program that equips outstanding early-career scientists with leadership skills to shape the future of science, with the 2026 cohort recently announced.

CAS solutions address information needs across the broad scope of science and technology, enabling innovation success across multiple industries. Whether supporting pharmaceutical drug discovery, intellectual property strategy, materials science, or enterprise AI initiatives, CAS combines unparalleled scientific content, purpose-built technology, and deep human expertise to help organizations navigate complex data landscapes and drive meaningful scientific progress.

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Software attributed to CAS (Scifinder)

• CAS SciFinderView
• CAS BioFinderView
• CAS FormulusView
• CAS Analytical MethodsView
• CAS IP FinderView
• FIZ PatMonView
• CAS Chemical Compliance IndexView
• ChemZentView

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