What is the role of Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification (SMILES) in Patent Information?
“The Simplified Molecular Input Line Entry Specification or “SMILES” is a specification for unambiguously describing the structure of chemical molecules using short ASCII strings. SMILES strings can be imported by most molecule editors for conversion back into two-dimensional drawings or three-dimensional models of the molecules.” (excerpt from Wikipedia) The chemical structure of Nicotine (C10H14N2), for example, can be represented by the string: CN1CCC[C@H]1c2cccnc2 The second link below is to the original SMILES specification by Daylight Chemical Information Systems, Inc., the company that defined the specification.
