On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Rajarshi Guha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On Jul 7, 2008, at 8:11 PM, Bala B K wrote: >> >> I am using a tool (lemur - at lemurproject.org) for indexing and later >> searching. Lemur converts everything to lowercase. > > Aah. So it's fundamentally text indexing and retrieval? Obviously I don't > know the details of your work, but InChI's together with hash indices are > very good for indexing and retrieval within a database. Of course, such > searches are based on exact matches
Yup. It is exactly that - indexing and retrieval. InChI could have probably worked just as well. I guess I picked SMILES simply because of the easy generation using CDK. I am using a lot of other stuff from CDK too :). Bala. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ Cdk-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdk-user
