Stereochemistry and the V2000 Molfile Format
Making sense of some confusing but core features in a de facto standard.
A Beginner's Guide to Parsing in Rust
Using a flexible system for writing custom parsers in Rust and other languages.
MDL Valence-Mageddon
Understanding what happened to the molfile format in 2014, and what it means today.
Ten Reasons to Adopt the V3000 Molfile Format
Balancing benefits and costs of the oldest new file format in cheminformatics.
Typed JavaScript
Improve the scalability and maintainability of JavaScript projects through static typing.
Types without TypeScript
Build type-safety into JavaScript projects without sacrificing language or tooling.
Molecular Graph Canonicalization
Building a mental model for fast graph comparison techniques.
A Rust PostgreSQL Extension for CAS Numbers
Making domain-specific types first-class citizens in one of the most popular database systems.
Postgres Extensions in Rust
Opening a new path to high-performance, domain-specific database applications.
The RDKit/Postgres Ordered Substructure Search Problem
Diagnosis and partial solution to a thorny performance issue affecting simple queries.
Running the RDKit Postgres Cartridge with Docker
Build structure-searchable databases on a versatile foundation.
The Trouble with Hückel
Postmortem of a head-on collision between computational chemistry and cheminformatics.
Writing Aromatic SMILES
What seems like a simple process oozes complexity below the surface.
Delocalization-Induced Molecular Equality
Exploring the limits of molecular representation and their practical consequences.
Of Zero-Order Bonds and Bonding Systems
In search of a backward-compatible upgrade path to multi-atom bonding.
An Introduction to the ChemDraw CDXML Format
Filling in some blanks for one of the most important standards in chemistry.
Running InChI Anywhere with WebAssembly
A solution to an immediate problem, and a peek into a possible future for computational chemistry and cheminformatics.
Parsing InChI: It's Complicated
SMILES and InChI may look like two solutions to the same problem, but looks can be deceiving.
Purr: A SMILES Toolkit for Rust
Pulling back the covers on a new way to work with SMILES.
Fast Hydrogen Counting in SMILES
What gets removed must be added back. The question is how?