CAS Formulus

CAS Formulus® is an integrated workflow tool built on a human-curated formulation database, designed to help formulation scientists create products that are both safe and effective. Drawing on curated data extracted from patents and scientific journals, it enables researchers across industries — including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, and agriculture — to accelerate product development with a more informed starting point. CAS Formulus is available as a standalone solution or as part of the broader CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform™.

By combining expert scientific curation with powerful search and visualization capabilities, CAS Formulus helps formulation teams save time, find inspiration, and conduct highly targeted research tailored to their specific needs. As noted by Barry Fanning, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at The Andersons: "The level of searchability allows me to wade through all the literature more effectively to get to the answer and get into the lab with a more informed baseline."

Core Benefits

• Time and efficiency: Save time during library research phases by quickly answering early formulating questions without extensive manual searching.
• Inspiration: Discover ideas that provide a meaningful starting point when working with a specific active ingredient.
• Targeted curation: Conduct formulation-specific, narrow searches precisely matched to your research requirements.

Key Features

• Formulation Designer: Provides a structured template based on user-selected criteria including industry, purpose, physical form, and active or featured ingredients, enabling efficient project advancement from the outset.
• Advanced Search with filtering and sorting: Returns easy-to-read formulation details — including components, processes, and experimental activities — through powerful filtering and sorting capabilities.
• Regulatory Information: Each search surfaces regulatory context, including how ingredients are commonly used, what they are commonly formulated with, and relevant regulatory data to help lower compliance barriers.
• Layer and Effectiveness view: A detailed visualization of formulations that groups components by layer, enabling a quicker and clearer understanding of formulation science.
• Supplier sourcing: Aggregates supplier information so users can compare and contrast supplier offerings for specific compounds directly within the platform.
• Human-curated database: Experienced scientist curators index and annotate patents and journals, extracting formulation-specific information so users can quickly view formulation details, explore individual ingredients, and trace information back to its source.

Identifying Formulation Trends

• CAS Formulus supports trend analysis by helping users find common threads across formulation data — for example, tracking the use of ingredients like spirulina across food, pharmaceutical, cosmetic, and agricultural applications.
• Users can examine what others in the field have done to understand where market trends originate and how perceptions are established.
• The platform helps researchers identify how others have navigated and lowered regulatory barriers, enabling teams to move forward with greater confidence.
• Use cases include applied research areas such as NPK fertilizers, with supporting resources including white papers on maximizing the strategic value of formulation data in pharma and a Quick Start Guide for onboarding.

CAS Formulus is supported by a suite of resources including webinars, use case demonstrations, white papers, and quick-start documentation, making it accessible for formulation scientists at all stages of product development. Its flexible deployment — either as a standalone tool or integrated within the CAS SciFinder Discovery Platform™ — ensures it can fit into a variety of organizational workflows and research environments.