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InChI is now built for collaboration — and scale

4 Dec 2024

The International Chemical Identifier (InChI) is going through a massive transformation — meet two of its champions who are helping bring InChI to the masses.

The InChI story is something like a Hollywood movie. It’s about the quest to encode the essential structural information of a chemical into a character string so it can be used, shared and found by any interested party. It features an unsung cast of quirky characters. And now, there’s even a happy ending that offers a new beginning for any organization seeking to pursue its chemical interests without sacrificing IP.

Read it all … in https://www.elsevier.com/connect/chemists-unite-inchi-is-now-built-for-collaboration-and-scale

Chemists unite! InChI is now built for collaboration — and scale

November 21, 2024
by Ann-Marie Roche

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