Patent ID: 7724257

Claim:
A computerized method of determining parameters for chemical reactions, comprising: accepting user input identifying a target chemical; searching a computer-readable database to identify chemical reactions in which the identified target chemical is a product; generating a visual representation of the identified chemical reactions, the visual representation including a flowchart having a plurality of nodes and a plurality of branches, the plurality of nodes including a first node representing the target chemical and a plurality of second nodes representing first reagent chemicals used to synthesize the target chemical and second reagent chemicals used to synthesize the first reagent chemicals, the plurality of branches including a plurality of first branches connecting the first node and the plurality of second nodes, each of the first branches representing a reaction path in which the target chemical is synthesized from the corresponding first reagent chemical, and a plurality of second branches connecting one or more of the second nodes to one or more other of the second nodes, each of the second branches representing a reaction path in which one of the first reagent chemicals is synthesized from a corresponding one of the second reagent chemicals; and displaying the visual representation.