On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]>
wrote:

> One stupid question: due to the length of these identifiers, and since
> they are not simple intransparent identifiers but rather encode semantics -
> if I understand it correctly - could a single such identifier be encoding
> content or ideas which are potentially covered by copyright or patent law?
> Is there some background available on that?
>


Not the InChI. The standard itself is meant to be reused as much as
possible and the software is open source.

Some information here:
http://jcheminf.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/1758-2946-5-7

Egon



> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 3:27 AM Egon Willighagen <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Sebastian, great you found time for it! I didn't :/ (Stats are worth a
>> tweet, IMHO :)
>>
>> Egon
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Sebastian Burgstaller <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Denny,
>>> Sorry, I missed this email. just did the calculation for InChI string
>>> lengths on the 92 Mio PubChem compounds:
>>>   99% 99.9%  100%
>>>   311   676  4502
>>>
>>> That said, there is not upper limit for the length, but 4502 is the
>>> longest string in the PubChem database. The other IDs, canonical and
>>> isomeric SMILES have the same distribution shape, but are overall
>>> slightly shorter.
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> Sebastian
>>>
>>> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 9:19 PM, Denny Vrandečić <[email protected]>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Can you figure out what a good limit would be for these two use cases?
>>> I.e.
>>> > what would support 99%, 99.9%, and 100%?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Sep 18, 2016, 12:27 Egon Willighagen <
>>> [email protected]>
>>> > wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >> sorry for joining the party late...
>>> >>
>>> >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Sebastian Burgstaller
>>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> >> > I think this topic might have been discussed many months ago. For
>>> >> > certain data types in the chemical compound space (P233, canonical
>>> >> > smiles, P2017 isomeric smiles and P234 Inchi key) a higher character
>>> >> > limit than 400 would be really helpful (1500 to 2000 chars (I sense
>>> >> > that this might cause problems with SPARQL)). Are there any plans on
>>> >> > implementing this? In general, for quality assurance, many string
>>> >> > property types would profit from a fixed max string length.
>>> >>
>>> >> 400 characters is not a lot for chemicals... InChIs can be a lot
>>> >> larger indeed. 2k would allow us to capture a lot more chemicals. BTW,
>>> >> this also applies to the canonical SMILES, which also doesn't have an
>>> >> upper bound. Tannic acid (Q427956) is an example (which looking at the
>>> >> InChIKey came up when running the bot :) From working with ChEMBL as
>>> >> RDF I know it has InChIs of length > 1024, which was the max length in
>>> >> Virtuoso... I think it's important for the biology and chemistry to
>>> >> increase the limit.
>>> >>
>>> >> Egon
>>> >>
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