Scientific Computing
Grid of complex molecular structures rendered from SELFIES and SMILES strings

Molecular String Renderer: Robust Visualization Infrastructure

A robust, type-safe Python library for converting chemical string representations (SMILES, SELFIES, InChI) into …...

Computational Chemistry

InChI and Tautomerism: Toward a Comprehensive Treatment

Dhaked et al.'s comprehensive analysis of tautomerism in chemoinformatics, introducing 86 new tautomeric rules and their …...

Computational Chemistry

InChI: The Worldwide Chemical Structure Identifier Standard

Heller et al. (2013) explain how IUPAC's InChI became the global standard for representing chemical structures, its …...

Computational Chemistry

Making InChI FAIR and Sustainable for Inorganic Chemistry

InChI v1.07 modernizes chemical identifiers for FAIR principles and adds support for inorganic compounds....

Computational Chemistry

Mixfile and MInChI: Machine-Readable Chemical Mixture Formats

Mixfile and MInChI provide the first standardized, machine-readable formats for representing chemical mixtures....

Computational Chemistry

NInChI: Toward a Chemical Identifier for Nanomaterials

NInChI (Nanomaterials InChI) extends chemical identifiers to represent complex, multi-component nanomaterials.

Computational Chemistry

Recent Advances in the SELFIES Library (2023)

Major updates to the SELFIES library, improved performance, expanded chemistry support, and new customization features....

Computational Chemistry

RInChI: Reaction International Chemical Identifier

RInChI extends InChI to create unique, machine-readable identifiers for chemical reactions and database searching....

Computational Chemistry

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

The 2020 paper introducing SELFIES, the 100% robust molecular representation that solves SMILES validity problems in ML.

Computational Chemistry

SMILES: The Original Paper (Weininger 1988)

Weininger's 1988 paper introducing SMILES notation, the string-based molecular representation that revolutionized …

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), from rule-based systems to modern AI models.

Document Processing
A colored molecule with annotations, representing the diverse drawing styles found in scientific papers that OCSR models must handle.

MolParser-7M and WildMol Datasets for Robust Chemical Structure Recognition

MolParser-7M is a 7.7M-pair dataset for molecule-to-text conversion, featuring real-world images and complex structures …