SMILES, A CHEMICAL LANGUAGE AND INFORMATION-SYSTEM .1. INTRODUCTION TO METHODOLOGY AND ENCODING RULES

WEININGER D

POMONA COLL,MED CHEM PROJECT CLAREMONT CA 91711

SMILES(Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry System) is a chemical notation system designed for modern chemical information processing. Based on principles of molecular graph theory, SMILES allows rigorous structure specification by use of a very small and natural grammar. The SMILES notation system is also well suited for high-speed machine processing. The resulting ease of usage by the chemist and machine compatability allow many highly efficient chemical computer applications to be designed including generation of a unique notation, constant-speed (zeroeth order) database retrieval, flexible substructure searching, and property prediction models.

Catagories INFORMATION SCIENCE & LIBRARY SCIENCE; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS, CHEMISTRY & ENGINEERING; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS & CYBERNETICS; CHEMISTRY

JOURNAL OF CHEMICAL INFORMATION AND COMPUTER SCIENCES,28(#1),1988,31-36