Consistency of systematic chemical identifiers within and between small-molecule databases

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Akhondi, Saber A ^a   Kors, Jan A ^a   Muresan, Sorel ^b  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ASTRAZENECA R AND D   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Chemical databases; InChI; IUPAC; Molecular structure; Quality control; SMILES; Systematic chemical identifiers

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872175954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2946-4-35     Document Type: Article

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