part Part I: Introduction to Information Mining for the Life Sciences -- chapter 1 Illustrating the Power of Information in Life Science Research -- chapter 2 Chemical Information Mining: A New Paradigm -- part Part II Chemical Semantics -- chapter 3 Automated Identification and Conversion of Chemical Names to Structure-Searchable Information -- chapter 4 Identification of Chemical Images and Conversion to Structure- Searchable Information -- chapter 5 Chemical Entity Formatting -- chapter 6 Chemical XML Formatting -- part Part III Trends in Chemical Information Mining -- chapter 7 Linking Chemical and Biological Information with Natural Language Processing -- chapter 8 Semantic Web -- part Part IV: Involving the Researchers and Closing the Loop -- chapter 9 The Future of Searching for Chemical Information -- chapter 10 Summary and Closing Statements.