ABSTRACT
The majority of expert systems developed in the area of chemistry have been applied in a laboratory environment. The advantage of these systems is the assistance they provide to the laboratory scientist throughout a given experiment. They can assist in the planning and monitoring of the experiment and in interpreting test data. This is particularly interesting where chemistry knowledge is required in one or more of the manifold interdisciplinary research areas, like biology, biochemistry, pharmacology, ecology, and engineering. We will deal with the application of expert systems in some of these areas in this chapter.
