Talk:Simplified molecular-input line-entry system

message: To be honest, I'm a SMILES novice, though I've known of its existence for
years.
An unambiguous depiction of the atomic structure of molecules is crucial to
successfully depicting and communicating about chemistry.  Images are often
indispensible to such depiction.  However, there are a number of issues
surrounding the generation and inclusion of images in the Wikipedia
(transcluded links hosted offsite aren't part of the central encyclopedia
corpus, easy software support of image loading isn't available or if
available brings concern of abuse, images seem to generate more copyright
concern [whether justified or not] than words contributed, etc.)
It seems that SMILES strings can serve as a very compact adjunct for
depicting some molecular structures.
I encourage my fellow Wikipedian science authors to consider the use of
SMILES strings in their work.
--JoeAnderson
: Yes, it would certainly be a nice piece of information to add. Less for depiction perhaps, but it would certainly make information more searchable. Search by substructure would certainly be a nice thing to have.
Shyamal 12:56, 30 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: I noticed that the SMILES representations for Citric Acid and Calcium citrate do not show the hydrogen atoms consistently.  What is the deal?  Say you draw a structure without H's, do you show the SMILES for the structure you drew, or for the molecule as it exists in reality?
--Slashme 09:45, 27 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I can't find the examples you mention, however, in general, there are multiple ways to represent almost any given structure using almost any desired notation system. For SMILES, it's okay to omit an explicit H when the atom is attached to the "organic subset" and the number of them is obvious (from valence rules). It's also okay to include them explicitly if you want, either in the square brackets or as explicit attached substituents. That's pretty close to the rule for most structural diagrams, too: you can omit hydrogen from carbon (but not the rest of the SMILES organic subset!) if you want, or you can include some or all of them if it makes the structure more clearly illustrate whatever you're trying to illustrate with it. DMacks 04:52, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Leaving atoms out

message: Any reason why SMILES redirects to Simplified molecular input line entry specification instead of the other way around? I assume SMILES is the most common name. National Aeronautics and Space Administration redirects to NASA, American Standard Code for Information Interchange redirects to ASCII, etc. Not a major problem, but it looks inconsistent. 82.92.119.11 19:17, 14 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Page title 

message: The link to SLN leads to a page a boutdurch sign language. Should it not be changed for something of the sort of ‘SLN (Tripos)’?
11:57, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to be bold! you are encouraged to edit things on your own. Anyway, I have created a SYBYL Line Notation article which is now cross-linked in both directions. Kind regards, JKW 20:29, 17 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  SLN Link 

message: To my mind, we should include ones directly related to SMILES itself: SMILES and SMARTS, and the tutorial seems in keeping with WP:EL. The Parsing SMILES technical page seems on-topic as well. The links to various converters and products that happen to understand SMILES seem inappropriate. It gets off the topic of SMILES as a syntax and system into just a collection of ext-links (specifically discouraged by WP:EL). The list is woefully incomplete both for products listed and whole classes of things (SMILES is at least as important as a database tool than just converting to/from 2D structures) and draws focus towards a few specific implementations that may not even be the most featured/general/useful ones (inescapable POV or undue weight issues). DMacks 00:15, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: That's along the lines of what I was thinking, although I don't really know the topic. I just dropped by to clean up after a conflict of interest editor who seemed to be over-linking his own work to a number of articles. I noticed the other links seemed to be straying so added the cleanup tag. ✤ JonHarder talk 01:11, 24 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: I'm an inorganic chemist, and after reading the current form of the article I don't feel able to estimate if (or how) this works for transition metal complexes (not necessarily mononuclear... say big polyoxometalates). Inorganic mixed-valence systems would also pose an interesting problem. Probably the article should give an idea of to what extent this works for inorganic systems. -- 147.156.44.37 17:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inorganic molecules 

message: The description needs to be improved, so it's less vague / more complete. A diagram, or rather, a few diagrams would also be nice. Shinobu 13:12, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better description 

message: I was just passing through and noticed the word isotope here. Pardon my ignorance but shouldn't this be isomer? Pterre 23:32, 4 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Corrected. Shyamal 01:24, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Re-corrected back to original per daylight's website descriptions. DMacks 02:04, 5 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: As I said, pardon my ignorance. How about adding some words (perhaps in the Examples section) to make it clear to the casual reader that this really does mean isotope and is not a typo? Pterre 12:15, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: No worries, naming is pretty non-intuitive sometimes. I'm not sure what more we could say that would make it clear that we mean what we say (it's just a definition of a term), but would love to hear suggestions. DMacks 19:49, 6 October 2007 (UTC)

text: I have changed the wording as I also found it rather confusing.  Please check for correctness. --Slashme (talk) 12:25, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Canonical SMILES and Isomeric SMILES 

message: Is there any standard on which atom to start on when describing a molecule?  I assume this is specified in Canonical SMILES? --Slashme (talk) 12:25, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I believe there is no unique way to "canonicalize". Think of it as a set of rules like those used for constructing IUPAC names. Shyamal (talk) 12:44, 22 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Where to start

message: The section on isotopes says that C14 benzene is [14c]1ccccc1.  Shouldn't that be [14c]1[14c][14c][14c][14c][14c]1? --Slashme (talk) 12:17, 16 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Isotopes 

message: Suggest copying diagram from the French version of the page. 212.137.63.86 (talk) 14:47, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagram 

message: 1) Which is preferred on the Smiles disambiguation page --
SMILES is a "chemistry notation"? or a "chemical notation"?
2) On the historical record of SMILES' authorship. I quoted referenced daylight~dave smiles acknowledgements. The now 2nd paragraph reads as follows:
 
>  "The original SMILES specification was initiated by David Weininger in the 1980s. Acknowledged for their parts in the early development were "Gilman Veith and Rose Russo (USEPA) and Albert Leo and Corwin Hansch(Pomona College) for supporting the work, and Arthur Weininger (Pomona; Daylight CIS) and Jeremy Scofield (Cedar River Software, Renton, WA) for assistance in programming the system."[1] The Environmental Protection Agency funded the initial project to develop SMILES.[2]
"<
Only Dave & Corwin have current wiki pages at moment.
Yohananw (talk) 00:24, 25 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  1) Disambig; 2) History authorship 

message: Under examples, several references to 'see depiction' pointing to stale external addresses, e.g.
http://www.daylight.com/daycgi/depict?4e5b434040485d28432943283d4f294f  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.249.191.206 (talk) 19:25, 1 June 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, they are available with archive.org, but someone should substitute all of them with commons formula images. --Itu (talk) 12:31, 25 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inappropriately included URLs 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: I was trying to figure out how to make p-carborane (and more generally an icosahedral molecule), and I came across the barrier that when you use a % for a ring number, like %10, you can't use other ring numbers on that one atom (eg. C1%10 isn't allowed). Does anyone know any work arounds to making a figure this way? Thottenjäger (talk) 21:00, 19 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  P-carborane in SMILES 

message: I have discovered that, at least for JMOL, SMILES has short codes that can stand for molecules. These do not appear to combine (i.e. cannot be used as functional groups) (e.g. CCCyn and CynCC don't work for Propionitrile), and I think that they should be mentioned in the article. I have begun to compile a table of them:
Code       	Molecule
Cyn        	Cyanide
Pur        	Purosine
Py         	Pyridine
Pyr        	Pyruvic acid
Lac        	Lactic acid
Sal        	Salicylic acid
Gu         	Guanidine
ClF and Clf	a glitchy combination of iron, sulfur, and hydrogen
Gua        	Glutaric acid
Gud        	Uridine diphosphate glucose
Suc        	Sucrose
Rop        	Propionamide
Ace        	Acetamide
For        	Formamide
Fom        	Fosmidomycin
Pyl        	Phenylethane
Cys        	Cysteine
Arg        	DL-arginine
His        	Histidine
Lys        	Lysine
Apr        	Adenosine diphosphate ribose
Asr        	Arsanilic acid
Arn        	1-imino-5-pentanone
Asn        	Asparagine
Apn        	Apholate
Asp        	Aspartic acid
Asa        	Acetylsalicylic acid
Act        	Acetic acid
Prp        	Phosphoribosyl pyrophosphate
Glu and Glt	Glutamic acid
Ser        	Serine
Ala        	Aminolevulinic acid hydrochloride
Thr        	Threonine
Gly        	Glycine
Pro        	Proline
Prl        	Proflavine
Ilo        	N5-ethanimidoylornithine
Ile        	Isoleucine
Leu        	Leucine
Et         	Ethidium
Eth        	Ethane
Pop        	Pyrophosphoric acid
But        	Butonate
Pnt        	Pentamidine
Pet        	1,5-di(4-amidinophenoxy)-3-oxa-pentane
Hx         	Hypoxanthine
Hex        	Hexane
Hpt        	Hexamethylphosphoramide
Hp         	Hematoporphyrin
Heme       	Heme B (my best guess, as something seems to be wrong with the 20-carbon conjugated system)
Met        	Methionine
Phe        	Phenylalanine
Phn        	Phenanthroline
Trp        	Tryptophan
Tyr        	Tyrosine
Val        	Valine
Vl         	Vinyl laurate
Gud        	globotriose with one hydroxyl group replaced by a fluorine atom
Fru        	Fructose
Glc        	Glucose
Gal        	Galactose
Ct         	Cholestane-3,5,6-triol
Cyt        	Cytosine
Ad         	2,5-dimethyl-2,5-di(tert-butylperoxy)hexane
Cy         	Cyclophosphamide
Ade        	Adenine
Adn        	Adenosine
Ctn        	Cytidine
Gun        	Guanine
Gns        	glucose with a hydroxyl group replaced with a sulfonamide group
Nic        	2-Nitroisocitrate
Thy        	Thymine
Tha        	Tacrine
The        	a sterol
Thu        	5,6-Dihydrodeoxyuridine
Urc        	Uric acid
Ura        	Uracil
Uri        	Uridine
Azt and Zdv	Zidovudine
Dn and Dnoc	Dinitro-ortho-cresol
Dnc        	3,5-dinitrocatechol
Het        	4-methyl-5-thiazoleethanol
Cha        	2-Amino-3-cyclohexylpropan-1-ol
Sa         	Succinylacetone
Ste        	Stearic acid
Va         	Vanillic acid
Ve         	VE (nerve agent)
Vx         	VX (nerve agent)
Sar        	Sarcosinamide
Vg         	VG (nerve agent)
Vp         	Arginine Vasopressin and Lysine Vasopressin
Vr         	VR (nerve agent)
Mal        	Maltose
Ma         	10,13,17-Trimethyl-17-oxidanyl-7,8,9,11,12,14,15,16-octahydro-6H-cyclopenta[aphenanthren-3-one]
Ml         	5-Methyl-2-[3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl-1,2-oxazol-3-one]
Gb         	Sarin
Tab        	2-Benzyl[2-chloro-5-(2,4-diamino-6-ethyl-5-pyrimidinyl)phenylazoaminoethyl acetate]
Tbn        	Tubercidine
Som        	Methyl phosphinic acid
Smn        	Mandelic acid
Gf         	Cyclosarin
Xa         	Xylosyladenine
Tt and Ttc 	Triphenyltetrazolium chloride
Xan        	Xanthine
Ttt        	1,3,5-trinitroso-1,3,5-triazinane
Tnt        	Trinitrotoluene
Tatb       	Triaminotrinitrobenzene
Ng         	Nitroglycerin
Cor        	2,4-Diamino-1,5-diphenylpentan-3-ol
Crl        	3-Nona-4,7-dienoyloxirane-2-carboxamide
Nap        	Nadide phosphate
Nad        	Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
Fad        	Flavin adenine dinucleotide
Rbf        	Riboflavin
Thm        	Thymidine
Ths        	5'-(dithiophosphono)-thymidine
Tht        	Thioflavin T
Thf        	Tetrahydrofuran
Fur        	5-Fluorouracil arabinoside
Frn        	what appears to be a protein with proline attached to phenylalanine attached to something that's probably lysine
Feel free to add to the table. Care to differ or discuss with me? The Nth User 02:25, 25 March 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Molecule codes