Line notation
Encyclopedia
Line notation is a typographical notation system using ASCII
characters, most often used for chemical nomenclature
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Line notation is a word and symbol description of an electrochemical cell widely used in chemistry.
ASCII
The American Standard Code for Information Interchange is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that use text...
characters, most often used for chemical nomenclature
IUPAC nomenclature
A chemical nomenclature is a set of rules to generate systematic names for chemical compounds. The nomenclature used most frequently worldwide is the one created and developed by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry ....
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Line notation is a word and symbol description of an electrochemical cell widely used in chemistry.
Chemistry
- International Chemical IdentifierInternational Chemical IdentifierThe IUPAC International Chemical Identifier is a textual identifier for chemical substances, designed to provide a standard and human-readable way to encode molecular information and to facilitate the search for such information in databases and on the web...
(InChI) - ROSDAL
- Wiswesser Line NotationWiswesser Line NotationWiswesser Line Notation, also referred to as WLN, invented by William J. Wiswesser in 1949, was the first line notation capable of precisely describing complex molecules. It was the basis of ICI Ltd's CROSSBOW database system developed in the late 1960's...
(WLN) - Simplified molecular input line entry specificationSimplified molecular input line entry specificationThe simplified molecular-input line-entry specification or SMILES is a specification in form of a line notation for describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings...
(SMILES) - Smiles arbitrary target specificationSmiles arbitrary target specificationSMiles ARbitrary Target Specification is a language for specifying substructural patterns in molecules. The SMARTS line notation is expressive and allows extremely precise and transparent substructural specification and atom typing....
(SMARTS) - SYBYL Line NotationSYBYL Line NotationThe SYBYL line notation or SLN is a specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings....
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