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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
