Furthermore, LiqCryst can interact with all other information systems. The advantage of fragments is the possibily to compare substructures and to allow a prediction of functions. Besides, fragments are similar to the building blocks used in the synthesis of liquid crystals. Fragments are the origin of mesophase properties, thus the transition temperature of a compound is not a function of 6 carbons and 6 bonds, but a function of a phenyl ring. Finally, the fragments give every molecule a clear defined sequence of priority in the tables.
Fragments allow table display of mesogenic cores and the display of homologes as graphical sketch.
The transition temperatures for two different chemical substructures can be compared. Future versions will expand this method to other physical data. The pair of data x,y can be used for statistical analysis by LiqCryst itself or by Excel or other programs. LiqCryst uses the classical formulas for mean value statistics and linear regressions as described in all statistic books. This are the methods used by LiqCryst itself, but user is encouraged to develope new methodes.