Computational Chemistry

Mixfile and MInChI: Machine-Readable Chemical Mixture Formats

Clark et al.'s Mixfile format and MInChI specification provide the first standardized, machine-readable way to represent …...

Computational Chemistry

NInChI: Toward a Chemical Identifier for Nanomaterials

Lynch et al. propose NInChI (Nanomaterials InChI) - a standardized notation system for representing complex …

Computational Chemistry

RInChI: Reaction International Chemical Identifier

RInChI extends the InChI standard to create unique, machine-readable identifiers for chemical reactions, enabling …...

Computational Chemistry

SMILES: The Original Paper (Weininger 1988)

A summary of David Weininger's foundational 1988 paper that introduced SMILES notation - the string-based molecular …

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
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

Invalid SMILES are Beneficial Rather than Detrimental to Chemical Language Models

Skinnider's 2024 Nature Machine Intelligence paper demonstrates that the ability to generate invalid SMILES is actually …...

Computational Chemistry

SELFIES and the Future of Molecular String Representations

A comprehensive perspective on molecular string representations, focusing on SELFIES as a 100% robust alternative to …...