Ambiguity of non-systematic chemical identifiers within and between small-molecule databases

Journal of Cheminformatics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Akhondi, Saber A ^a   Muresan, Sorel ^b   Williams, Antony J ^c   Kors, Jan A ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b BANAT S UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Romania)

^c ChemConnector Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Chemical databases; Chemical name ambiguity; Molecular structure; Non systematic chemical identifiers; Quality control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947495159     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13321-015-0102-6     Document Type: Article

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