[Development of an automated information retrieval system for the identification of antibiotics].

The basic points in the development of a specialized computer information search system providing ientification of new antibiotics at early stages of their investigation are described. The system of coding the physico-chemical properties of the agents and the spectra of their antimicrobial activity presenting the substance in the information bank is developed. The task of identification is to find in the reference bank according to some specially organized keys such antibiotics which are identical or close by their properties to the substance being identified. Mini-computer of M-6000 type is used as the technical base of the information search system. Preliminary organization of the bank specified by the coding system markedly reduces the requirements to the computer operative memory.