The PubChem chemical structure sketcher
By Wolf-Dietrich Ihlenfeldt, Evan E. Bolton, Stephen H. Bryant. 2009
105 citations recorded by the source corpus.
PubChem is an important public, Web-based information source for chemical and bioactivity information. In order to provide convenient structure search methods on compounds stored in this database, one mandatory component is a Web-based drawing tool for interactive sketching of chemical query structures. Web-enabled chemical structure sketchers are not new, being in existence for years; however, solutions available rely on complex technology like Java applets or platform-dependent plug-ins. Due to general policy and support incident rate considerations, Java-based or platform-specific sketchers cannot be deployed as a part of public NCBI Web services. Our solution: a chemical structure sketching tool based exclusively on CGI server processing, client-side JavaScript functions, and image sequence streaming. The PubChem structure editor does not require the presence of any specific runtime support libraries or browser configurations on the client. It is completely platform-independent and verified to work on all major Web browsers, including older ones without support for Web2.0 JavaScript objects.
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Citations in the corpus
- PubChem in 2021: new data content and improved web interfaces (2020, methodology): “The query structure can be provided as SMILES (45–47) or InChI strings (48) or drawn using the PubChem Sketcher (49).”
- CurlySMILES: a chemical language to customize and annotate encodings of molecular and nanodevice structures (2011, methodology): “SMILES is bridging the opposite ends of humanfriendly molecular drawings, achieved with molecule editors [12,13], and computer-friendly connection tables (matrices), both used in representing molecular structures.”