i suggest that you use a special tokenizer that breaks chemical names into their 
constituent parts and index them as if they were words.

Herb....

-----Original Message-----
From: Hackl, Rene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 7:17 AM
To: 'Lucene Users List'
Subject: Re: Can use Lucene be used for this

Yes and yes. Users range from Information Professionals to "naive" end
users.
If there's a string like "N-(t-Butyl)-N-(3,5-dinitrobenzoyl)-nitroxyl" users
can be expected to search for "dinitro", "3,5-dinitro", "nitrobenz" etc.

There are also sequences of amino acids or DNA that users might want to
match
partially. 

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