On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Thomas G. Kristensen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a program that needs to compare molecule structures to
> infer if they are topologically identical. So far I have been using
> CDKs SmilesGenerator to compare string representations of molecules,
> but I've realised that the SMILES strings are not canonical, even
> though the API states that they are.

InChI's?

Also, can you provide some examples where the SMILES output is not canonical?

-- 
Rajarshi Guha
NIH Chemical Genomics Center

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