(I half expected that link to be paywalled - fortunately it wasn't.)

Thanks!

On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:10 AM Egon Willighagen <[email protected]>
wrote:

> 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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