Book excerpt: Dictionary of Carbohydrates on CD-ROM provides chemical, physical, and structural data on 29,000 carbohydrates together with selected literature references. This electronic version of the renowned Chapman & Hall Dictionary of Carbohydrates offers complete coverage of : parent monosaccharides together with a full range of their derivatives, e.g. deoxy, aminodeoxy, and halogenodeoxy sugars disaccharides and their derivatives oligosaccharides, polysaccharides, and nucleosides glycoside antibiotics and other structurally unusual glycosides key carbohydrates used in modern synthetic methodology Dictionary of Carbohydrates on CD-ROM is fully text- and substructure-searchable, and contains easy-to-use drawing software. You can search rapidly through the entire database using browsable indices to find the exact information you need. Results can be easily transferred between text and substructure searching. System requirements: IBM 486 or higher compatible computer with 40MB hard disk (12MB free capacity), 4MB RAM, VGA Monitor (color), MS DOS 3.3 or higher, Windowsä 3.1 or higher or Windows 95, external or internal CD-ROM drive. (Will normally run to a lower performance standard on IBM 386 and/or less hard disk and RAM capacity than those stated above).