Computational Chemistry

Recent Advances in the SELFIES Library (2023)

An overview of the major updates to the SELFIES Python library, including improved performance, expanded chemical …...

Computational Chemistry

SELFIES: The Original Paper (Krenn et al. 2020)

A summary of the foundational 2020 paper that introduced SELFIES - the 100% robust molecular string representation …

Computational Chemistry

GTR-CoT: Graph Traversal as Visual Chain of Thought for Molecular Structure Recognition

Wang et al.'s novel VLM approach using graph traversal CoT and faithful recognition principles to improve optical …...

Computational Chemistry

SubGrapher: Visual Fingerprinting of Chemical Structures

Morin et al.'s method for creating molecular fingerprints directly from images using instance segmentation of functional …...

Computational Chemistry
The transformation from a 2D chemical structure image to a SMILES representation

What is Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR)?

A micro-review of Optical Chemical Structure Recognition (OCSR), tracing its evolution from rule-based systems to …

Computational Chemistry

αExtractor: Automatic Chemical Information Extraction from Biomedical Literature

Xiong et al.'s deep learning system for extracting chemical structures from literature images using ResNet-Transformer …...

Computational Chemistry

Img2Mol: Accurate SMILES Recognition from Molecular Graphical Depictions

Clevert et al.'s two-stage CNN approach for converting molecular images to SMILES using CDDD embeddings and extensive …...

Computational Chemistry

MolNexTR: A Generalized Deep Learning Model for Molecular Image Recognition

Chen et al.'s dual-stream encoder approach for robust molecular structure recognition from diverse real-world images …...

Computational Chemistry

MolParser: End-to-end Visual Recognition of Molecule Structures in the Wild

Fang et al.'s method for converting molecular structure images from scientific documents into machine-readable formats …...

Computational Chemistry
SELFIES strings guarantee 100% valid molecules - even when generated randomly

Converting SELFIES Strings to 2D Molecular Images

Learn how to visualize SELFIES molecular representations and explore their unique advantages through random sampling, …

Computational Chemistry
SELFIES representation of 2-Fluoroethenimine molecule

SELFIES (Self-Referencing Embedded Strings)

SELFIES is a 100% robust string-based representation for chemical molecules, designed for machine learning applications …...

Computational Chemistry
Müller-Brown Potential Energy Surface showing the three minima and two saddle points

Müller-Brown Potential

The Müller-Brown potential: a classic two-dimensional analytical benchmark for testing optimization algorithms, reaction …...