Dear Thomas, On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Thomas Douillard < [email protected]> wrote:
> Probably a silly question but ... did you all consider creating a datatype > for molecue representation ? This seem to be a very similar usecase than > mathematica formula. Essentially we're not dealing with a raw string but a > representation of molecule formulas, with its own encoding ... > The InChI is actually not a structural representation, but a derived unique identifier. What you propose would, however, apply to the SMILES. That one is generally of about the same size as the InChI, and there your solution sounds like a great idea! Egon > Changing the limit seem to be a poor workaround to a dedicated datatype - > nobody seems to have found a relevant usecase and it seem to me that we're > essentially abusing strings for storing blobs ... > > 2016-10-08 11:33 GMT+02:00 Egon Willighagen <[email protected]>: > >> >> >> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:28 AM, Lydia Pintscher < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 11:23 AM, Egon Willighagen >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > Ah, those numbers are for https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P234 >>> ... >>> >>> External identifier then. Cool. And for string like in >>> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P233? Sebastian's initial email >> >> says 1500 to 2000. Is this still a good number after this discussion? >>> >> >> Yes, that would cover more than 99.9% of all InChIs in PubChem. (See >> Sebastian's reply earlier in this thread.) >> >> Egon >> >> -- >> E.L. Willighagen >> Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT >> Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) >> Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ >> LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw >> Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ >> PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers >> ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 >> ImpactStory: https://impactstory.org/u/egonwillighagen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikidata mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikidata mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikidata > > -- E.L. Willighagen Department of Bioinformatics - BiGCaT Maastricht University (http://www.bigcat.unimaas.nl/) Homepage: http://egonw.github.com/ LinkedIn: http://se.linkedin.com/in/egonw Blog: http://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/ PubList: http://www.citeulike.org/user/egonw/tag/papers ORCID: 0000-0001-7542-0286 ImpactStory: https://impactstory.org/u/egonwillighagen
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