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This book constitutes the Proceedings of the conference "Chemical Structures: The International Laniguage of Chemistry", Noordwijkerhout, The Netherlands, May 31-June 4, 1987. The conference was jointly sponsored by the Chemical Structure Association, the American Chemical Society Divi- sion of Chemical Information, and the Chemical Information Groups of the Royal Society of Chemistry and the German Chemical Society. The purpose of the conference was to bring together experts to discuss and to further basic and applied research and development in the proicessing, storage, retrieval and use of chemical structures, to further basic and applied research and development in the processing,sto- rage, retrieval and use of chemical structures, to foster co-operation among major chemical information organisations in North America and Europe. Subjects covered included integrated in-house databases, substructure searching methodology, spectral databanks, new technologies (microcom- puters, CD-ROM, parallel processing and expert systems) and chemical reactions.